Kaspar Sturm (organ builder)

Johann Kaspar Sturm (also Caspar Sturm or Kaspar Sturmb; * around 1540 in Schneeberg (Erzgebirge) ; † after February 1, 1605) was a German organist and organ builder .

life and work

Sturm was first proven to be a citizen in Regensburg in 1565, he held the position of organist at the Protestant Neupfarrkirche . He later played from 1568 to 1577 in the Munich court orchestra, which was directed by Orlando di Lasso . Two organs for the court were built in Munich in 1568 and 1574. After turning away from the Catholic faith, he settled in Ulm in 1578 and received citizenship there in 1580 or 1583. Around 1579 he built an organ there for the Ulm Minster . In 1583 he built an organ for the Augustinian Church in Vienna, in 1584 an instrument from his workshop was made for Emperor Rudolf II. Around 1586 he was in Italy. In 1588 he built a positive for the Protestant country house church in Linz, and in the following year an instrument was made for the Protestant collegiate church in Graz. From 1594 he was again a citizen of Regensburg. In the years 1597/1598 he is said to have built an organ for St. Martin in Memmingen together with Aaron Ruck . At the end of the 16th century, his workshop was considered one of the most influential in southern Germany. Sturm was married to Margaretha Stegerin, with whom he had ten children.

literature

Kurt Malisch: Sturm (b), Kaspar, organist and organ builder. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 766 ( digitized version ).
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , Volume 24, 2001.
Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders. Series of pocket books on musicology, 116.Wilhelmshaven 1994.
The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Volume 12, 1965 and Volume 16, 1979.
Rudolf Quoika : The old Austrian organ of the late Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Kassel / Basel 1953.
Eberstaller, 1955.
H. Federhofer in: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria , 68/69, 1953.
StMl 1962-66.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut Riedel: Kaspar Sturm (1540 ~ 1600), the organ builder from Schneeberg , biographical summary on the website freundeskreis-stadtarchiv.net, viewed July 15, 2012 (PDF; 121 kB)
↑ Place of birth also according to the Austrian Music Lexicon
↑ Year of death after February 1, 1605 according to the Austrian Music Lexicon, according to Bosl, Sturm can no longer be traced back to 1590.
↑ Citizenship of Ulm 1583 according to the Austrian Music Lexicon .

personal data
SURNAME	Sturm, Kaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sturmb, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German organist and organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schneeberg (Ore Mountains)
DATE OF DEATH	after 1590 or after February 1, 1605

[riedel-1] Helmut Riedel: Kaspar Sturm (1540 ~ 1600), the organ builder from Schneeberg , biographical summary on the website freundeskreis-stadtarchiv.net, viewed July 15, 2012 (PDF; 121 kB)

[2] Place of birth also according to the Austrian Music Lexicon

[3] Year of death after February 1, 1605 according to the Austrian Music Lexicon, according to Bosl, Sturm can no longer be traced back to 1590.

[4] Citizenship of Ulm 1583 according to the Austrian Music Lexicon .