Friedrich Ladegast

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Friedrich Ladegast

Friedrich Ladegast (born August 30, 1818 in Hochhermsdorf , † June 30, 1905 in Weißenfels ) was an important German organ builder in the second half of the 19th century .

Life

childhood

Friedrich Ladegast was born on August 30, 1818 as the eighth child of the house owner, carpenter and pipe master Johann Christlieb Ladegast and his wife Eva Rosina, nee. Dathin, born in Hochhermsdorf (today Hermsdorf) near the town of Geringswalde in Saxony . The Ladegasts were not a traditional family of musicians, but the children came into contact with music by making music in the family circle. Instructions in piano playing , which were later supplemented by lessons on the organ , initiated the young Friedrich in the basics of this art. The love for music and the craftsmanship acquired from his father went together. In his later years he said to his friend, the organist William Hepworth from Chemnitz : "Basically, I am just as musically inclined as you are, only that time and circumstances do not allow me to develop my skills in this regard." moved to become an organ builder can only be assumed today. In addition to the fact that his older brother Christlieb also chose this profession, the role model of the famous compatriot Gottfried Silbermann , who worked 150 years earlier in Freiberg , about 50 km away , will have had a strong, if not necessarily direct, influence on the brothers . There is no doubt that the Ladegasts had known his plants in Rochlitz , Ringethal and Schweikershain, which are located in the immediate vicinity of their home village, since childhood .

education

Friedrich received his first training as an organ builder in his brother's workshop in Geringswald. His journeyman piece is in the Ev.-luth. Church to Tanneberg near Mittweida . In the following years of his wandering he worked in various organ workshops in Central Germany ( Kreutzbach in Borna , Mende in Leipzig and Zuberbier in Dessau ). Later study trips led him a. a. also to Alsace , southern Germany and France . According to his own information, Ladegast studied the early works of Gottfried Silbermann in Strasbourg in Alsace , but not, as was mistakenly assumed in the past, as an employee of Martin Wetzel's workshop directly after his apprenticeship in the organ building workshops in Central Germany.

Even the assumption that Friedrich Ladegast got to know the famous French organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll personally on one of his trips and even worked for him for some time, proves to be incorrect based on current knowledge. Both organ builders, however, held each other in high esteem. For example, before the construction of the large organ for the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig (1862) , Friedrich Ladegast found out about the technical systems in the large organs of Cavaillé-Colls on a study trip. Albert Schweitzer writes:

“The great French organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll made it [F. Ladegast] is valued as the best among contemporary organ builders of the second half of the 19th century. I still knew Cavaillé-Coll and can confirm that he spoke of Ladegast with admiration. "

branch

In 1846, Friedrich Ladegast applied for a branch as an organ builder and instrument maker in the Saalestadt Weißenfels , which was approved in early 1847. His newspaper advertisement, which appeared shortly afterwards in the Weißenfelser Kreisblatt, shows the following: “I admit that I have settled here as an organ builder and instrument maker. I ask for your trust, which I will always make myself worthy of the strictest realism. Weißenfels, February 5, 1847 ”.

Not only the protection of the Weißenfels royal music director Ernst J. Hentschel , but also economic factors, played a decisive role in the decision to settle in Weißenfels of all places . Weißenfels, not far from the large cities of Leipzig and Halle , was one of those central German cities that developed rapidly in the course of industrialization . The opening of a railway line to Erfurt on June 6, 1846 brought considerable advantages to the location. The Saale River was also still navigable at that time.

As can be seen from his application for a settlement permit, Ladegast was already familiar with the area through his stay in Lützen to repair the Kreutzbach organ (1839) in the local church. There were no other organ building workshops in the area and therefore little competition. In addition, the city had a teacher training college, which had developed into a center for teacher training in the Prussian province. Since 1822 the institute has been under the direction of the famous pedagogue Wilhelm Harnisch . a. shaped by such personalities as Ernst J. Hentschel and Moritz Hill . Ladegast had a friendly relationship for years with Hentschel, who was also the godfather of his children.

successes

Although the economic aspects were promising, the order situation remained poor in the first few years. In 1849, through the intercession of David Hermann Engel , Ladegast received an order for an organ in the St. George Church in Geusa near Merseburg , which should fundamentally change the future of the young organ builder. Ladegast put everything on one card - his skills, his own resources, his own visions - and won. The organ, originally planned as a one-manual work, was expanded to include a second manual beyond the contract - at Ladegast's own expense. When the organ was accepted, Engel was “delighted” by the sound, the choice of material, the quality of the workmanship - all those aspects that brought Ladegast fame during his lifetime and still distinguish his organs today. In 1855 Ladegast got another order for an organ in the St. Thomas Church in the Geusa district of Blösien .

New orders and the associated success were not long in coming. In 1850, Ladegast acquired a two-story house on Naumburger Strasse, where he set up his workshop and in which five new plants were built in the same year. With the exception of the organ in the village church in Albersroda (II / 15), these were single-manual works with 5 to 10 registers.

On November 3, 1850 at the age of 32, Friedrich Ladegast married the 24-year-old Johanne Rosette Bertha Lange (* May 7, 1826, † January 6, 1892), daughter of the Weißenfels city organist. The marriage was blessed with twelve children. However, seven of the children died prematurely. At the end of 1851, Ladegast received an order to build a new organ for the St. Peter town church in the town of Hohenmölsen, 15 km away . With its 24 sounding stops, this organ is today his largest two-manual instrument, which - with the exception of the prospect pipes and the wind turbine - has been preserved in its original form. It occupies a special position in his work, not only because it was the first major commission, but because, due to its sound and structural soundness, it formed a basis for the major commissions that followed immediately afterwards in Merseburg, Schulpforta , Leipzig, etc.

When the Merseburg cathedral organ had to be repaired again in 1853, the cathedral organist Engel could not consider anyone else as a guest. A repair costing 4,500  thalers became a new building for 6,258 thalers. While retaining the case of the old organ and 26 of its stops, which were later also replaced by new ones, Ladegast set up a work with 81 stops on 4 manuals and pedal, about which it was already said during the construction that “this organ work is a new one Section in the art of organ building designates in that things have been achieved here that have not yet occurred on any other organ ”. The inauguration took place on September 26, 1855. This organ, which was the largest in Germany at that time, brought Ladegast a lot of recognition and fame and placed him on a higher level among the ranks of smaller organ builders. The work was admired by a number of well-known intellectuals and inspired, for example, Franz Liszt to some of his great organ works.

Before his next big order, the organ for the Leipzig Nikolaikirche (IV / 84), which was completed in 1862 as the largest organ in Saxony at the time, around 16 instruments were made, including the first three-manual organ for the Pforta State School (Schulpforta) near Naumburg (1857 , 34 registers). The work was demolished in the 1960s and stored in the attic until it was stripped of essential parts at some point. However, there is still a small Ladegast organ from 1884 with 11 registers in the auditorium of the state school. In 2005 this small organ was repaired by the organ building workshop Rösel & Hercher . Two organs went beyond the region to East Prussia ( Memel , 1858, II / 44) and Lower Silesia ( Görkau , 1859, II / 13).

In 1864, Ladegast built his second three-manual organ (41 stops) for the town church of St. Marien on behalf of the municipality of Weißenfels, which is today his oldest three-manual organ. Also in 1864, Ladegast's third three-manual organ - a work with 39 registers for the castle church in Wittenberg in the historic case by J. E. Hübner (1767) - was completed. In 1892 this got a new neo-Gothic case and was supplemented with a Barker machine .

New orders for large instruments required a larger workshop. In 1865, Ladegast applied for a permit to build a new workshop on Naumburger Strasse. Thus, a room was created that later even housed the organ for the Schwerin Cathedral . Such an assembly hall made it possible to relieve individual production sites such as the pipe-making and windchest workshops and allowed several instruments to be built at the same time. In addition, the possibility of installation made it possible to perform a pre-intonation of a new organ, to check the action of its suitability and to eliminate any defects in the workshop. Furthermore, this led to the crystallization of individual professional special areas with specially trained personnel such as tin workers, pipe or windchest makers and the like. Ä.

This practice only became generally accepted among central German organ builders in the 1880s and 1890s with the increase in production and exports. The organ building company Jehmlich , founded in 1808, did not get its large assembly hall until 1897. The also traditional Saxon organ building company Eule, founded in 1872, built its hall in 1888. Friedrich Ladegast can therefore be seen as a progressive-thinking organ builder of his time who did not completely shut himself off to industrialization , describe. Unfortunately, the workshop was completely demolished in 1979.

In the period between 1864 and 1871, around 25 new organs left the workshop, three of them went to the Baltic States , one to Moscow (op. 50, 1868) and two to the Palatinate. Other instruments were rebuilt or repaired.

The year 1871 was groundbreaking for Ladegast, which finally put him in the ranks of internationally important organ builders. This year his work was completed with 84 voices in Schwerin Cathedral. The construction cost 11,000 thalers, took three years and was completed on September 6, 1871. In this instrument, Ladegast used everything that had convinced him of the technical innovations and findings of that time. Besides the already proven Barker machine, the split into divisions slider chest and the radial angle and Wellentraktur he built for the first time in the history of German organ building in an organ, the pneumatically controlled crescendo one. With these innovations, which actually only became standard with the introduction of tube pneumatics, he stepped ahead of the times and thus set indelible marks in German organ building history.

On November 10, 1871, Ladegast received the Gold Cross of Merit awarded by the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin - the House Order of the Wendish Crown - for organ building in Schwerin . The instrument, built in 1872 for the St. Jakobskirche in Köthen , is still the largest organ in Anhalt today .

In 1872 he was commissioned to build the organ for the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein . Its housing was designed by the architect Theophil von Hansen . The organ had 52 registers, distributed over three manuals and pedal, whereby he provided mechanical slide chests for the manual works and cone chests for the pedal work. Anton Bruckner took part in the opening concert on this organ. In 1907, however, this organ was replaced by a new instrument.

Competition

The general change from a craft business to a factory as the main feature of industrial development, triggered by the invention of the steam engine , brought about profound changes in organ building as well. The growth of cities associated with the industrial revolution called for new churches and organs. In addition, many instruments that were perceived as out of date were replaced. Traditional craft production could no longer fully satisfy this increased demand. The livelihood of many companies no longer only depended on the quality of their work, but increasingly on their ability to increase production volumes and keep prices low. Only larger companies were able to meet these enormous requirements.

Around 1840, the company EF Walcker & Cie. , Ludwigsburg, the first cone shop organ was built. This new wind chest system led to divisions and disputes like no other invention in organ building. Received enthusiastically by some, frowned upon by others, it traced the path of organ building at that time. No well-known organ workshop passed the cone chest. While some companies such as Walcker and Sauer made a complete changeover to this wind chest system, others returned to the sliding chest after a few attempts with the cone chest or used both systems at the same time. The latter also included the Ladegasts workshop. He himself comments on the use of both systems as follows: "In fact, I use all systems, sometimes different in one organ, each where it seems appropriate to me."

Indeed, in the seventies and eighties one can find both pure slider chest organs (e.g. in the parish church in Posen , III / 43, 1876) and pure cone chest organs (e.g. in the St. Nicholas Church in Spandau , III / 45, 1880) as well as organs with a mixed wind chest system (e.g. St. Andreas Church in Rudolstadt , III / 33, 1882). Both organs with slide chests in the manuals and cone chests in the pedal and vice versa were built. The latter combination is preferred by Ladegast in his later creative period. Nevertheless, he remained a staunch supporter of the slider chest all his life. On January 13, 1880, he addressed the then general secretary of the Vienna Society of Friends of Music , Leopold Alexander Zellner , the lines that had already become proverbial:

“[…] Of the works delivered in the past year, two were with a cone shop. In many respects, the same are easier to manufacture than slider chests (but to be honest!) The slider chests will not be displaced by the cones. However, since almost everything is crazy, it doesn't help, you have to cry with me! "

It was not until the late 1880s that the workshop turned more intensively to pneumatics. However, since by 1890 at the latest almost all well-known organ building companies started building the pipe pneumatics and already had their own sophisticated systems, the traditional workshop from Weißenfels fell by the wayside in the tough competition - the train had left. The once famous company was gradually pushed out of the market. The large orders were reserved for other companies that were now building the organs that were considered modern.

In 1884, when the new organ was awarded for the newly built Gewandhaus in Leipzig , the company suffered its first major defeat against the Walcker company. The Frankfurt organ building company Sauer contested further orders for him in the city of Leipzig, which previously belonged to "his territory". The large buildings for the Petrikirche (1886, III / 60) and the Thomaskirche (1889, III / 63) were awarded to Sauer. The answer to the question of whether this development is solely due to alleged intrigues, of which Ladegast often spoke, remains speculation.

Closely connected with the technical advancement in organ building was the change in the sound aesthetics of the organ to the late romantic orchestral style. Due to Ladegast's sound ideas, which at the beginning of the 1890s were considered too straightforward and outdated, his works were increasingly no longer competitive in this respect.

The number of organ builders who learned and worked at Ladegast is large. These include:

• Carl Bernecker (1844–?), Organ builder in Saxony
• Leopold Breinbauer (1859–1920), organ builder in Ottensheim near Linz
• Franz Eggert (1849–1911), organ builder in Paderborn
• Gustav Heinze (1874–1949), organ builder in Sorau and Weißenfels
• Albert Hollenbach (1850–1904), organ builder in Neuruppin, Brandenburg
• Franz Emil Keller (1843–1925), organ builder in Ostrau near Döbeln, Saxony
• Johann Franz Anton Kiene (1845–1908), organ builder in Waldkirch
• Ernst Klassmeier (1840–1926), organ builder in Kirchheide near Lemgo
• Hermann Kopp (1837–1892), organ builder in Apolda
• Eugen Link (1855–1940), organ builder in Giengen a. d. Brenz.
• Friedrich Albert Mehmel (1827–1888), organ builder in Stralsund and Wismar
• Gustav Normann (1821–1893), Estonian organ builder
• Theodor Rühlmann († 1910), organ builder in Zörbig
• Wilhelm Rühlmann d. Ä. (1842–1922), organ builder in Zörbig
• Albert Späth (1866–1948), organ builder in Ennetach-Mengen

End of life

The Ladegast family grave at the Weißenfels cemetery

After the death of his wife in 1892, Friedrich Ladegast withdrew more and more from the public. Still involved in the management of the company until then, in 1898 he finally handed the scepter over to his son Oskar Ladegast (born September 26, 1858 - † January 4, 1944).

After a stroke, Friedrich Ladegast was lovingly cared for by his daughter Elisabeth. He died in her arms on June 30, 1905. His last words were, "Help me, help me!" Master's death was publicly noted with great respect. As early as August 3, 1905, the following message from the city council appeared in the Weißenfelser Tagesblatt: “The city council honored the old master of organ building, Friedrich Ladegast, who recently died, by taking the road connecting Beuditz and Gustav Adolfstraße Added the name 'Ladegaststrasse'. "

The importance of this outstanding master of German organ building can best be understood with the words of Albert Schweitzer to the then Merseburg cathedral organist Hans-Günther Wauer (in a letter from Lambarene from 1958):

“I consider Friedrich Ladegast to be the most important organ builder after Silbermann, whose tradition he continues. Both in terms of technology and sound, his creations are unique in a certain way. I myself was moved by the variety and the beauty of the tone of the Ladegast organs that I got my hands on and at the beginning of our century I advised organists who wanted to rebuild and modernize their Ladegast organs against this sin. In terms of sound quality, I even put Ladegast organs above those from Cavaillé-Coll. "

On April 11, 1991, the German astronomer Freimut Börngen named the asteroid (29204) Ladegast after the organ builder.

List of works (selection)

Friedrich Ladegast

Friedrich Ladegast created over 120 new organs and conversions, mainly in the Duchy of Weissenfels and the surrounding area, but also as far as the Russian Empire and the USA . Some have been preserved. Instruments that are no longer available are in italics .

year	Op.	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1838	1	Tanneberg	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	9	Made by him as a journeyman's piece in his brother's workshop, expanded by him in 1882. Overhauled in 2015 with the reconstruction of missing pipes and restoration of the color of the organ case.
1851	8th	Hohenmölsen	St. Petri		II / P	24	restored in 1998 by the Wegscheider organ workshop
1851	6th	Lissen near Osterfeld	Evangelical provost church		II / P	17th	1917 Expansion of the prospect pipes, later replaced, otherwise preserved, 2008 cleaning of the pipes
1853-1855	16	Merseburg	Merseburg Cathedral		IV / P	81	Ladegast took over the baroque prospectus, which was created 1693-1717 by Zacharias Thayßner and Johann Friedrich Wender . In 1856 Carl August Fischer publicly performed Liszt's " Fantasy and Fugue on BACH " on this organ . In the years 2000–2004, the Eule , Scheffler and Wegscheider workshops extensively restored the instrument. → organ
1856-1858	24	Memel , East Prussia, today Klaipeda, Lithuania	Lithuanian Church		III / P	44	not received
1859	29	Görkau (Jirkov), Northern Bohemia	Church of St. Aegidius (Jiljí)		II / P	13	probably not preserved, 1910 new pneumatic building
1858-1862	34	Leipzig	Nikolaikirche		IV / P	84	1902/1903 extension conversion by Wilhelm Sauer , 2002/2003 reconstruction and extension by Eule ; Then as now, the largest organ in Saxony. → organ
1863	38	Wittenberg	Castle Church		3/1	63	Expanded in 1936 and 1985; originally 39 registers
1864	35	Weissenfels	City Church of St. Mary		III / P	41	probably his reference object on site, the old master sat at it himself
1864	36	Zöschen	Zöschen Church		II / P	18th	built 1862–1864, range in manual C - f "(drone from C), in pedal C - d ', repaired in 1992 by organ builder Thomas Hildebrandt, Halle (Saale)
1865	41	St. Ingbert	Martin Luther Church		II / P	16	at that time only organ Ladegasts in Saarland, or in all of southern and southwestern Germany; In 1933, almost all pipes and manual windchests in a new building by Walcker were reused; This Walcker organ was replaced in 1966 by Neubau Oberlinger (some old pipes have been preserved to this day)
1866	45	Storkau	St. Vincenz and Gangolf		I / p	6th	To this day, the organ can also be operated without electricity.
1866	44	Plennschütz	Protestant church		II / P	12	Relocated to Güstrow Cathedral when the Plennschützer Church was closed in the 1980s, built into the Biederitz village church by Wegscheider in 1996/97 → disposition of the organ
1867	46	St. Matthiae (Matīši), Livonia	Lutheran Church of St. Matthias		II / P	13	Moved to a museum in Riga in 1947, returned to Matīši in 1993 and restored
1867	47	Burtneck (Burtnieki), Livonia	Lutheran Church		II / P	20th	all pipes removed, case and mechanics preserved
1867	48	Walk (Valga), Estonia	Lutheran St. John's Church		II / P	21st	Restored 1998–2004
1868	53	Polditz	St. Nicolai		III / P	33	Saxony's largest loading organ, → Organ + Disposition
1868	50	Moscow	Wassilij Chludow's private salon		II / P	16	oldest preserved organ in Russia, moved to the Conservatory in 1886, to the Moscow Music Museum in 1992 , restoration by Gučas → Organ from 1996–1998
1869	55	Naumburg (Saale)	Marien Magdalenen Church		II / P	23	in the old case by Christian Friedrich Poppe (1785)
1870-1871	58	Schwerin	Schwerin Cathedral		IV / P	84	→ organ
1871	59	Moscow	Evangelical Reformed Church		II / P	18th	1897/98 replaced by Röver organ (III / P, 38)
1872	60	Koethen	St. Jacob		III / P	47
1872	67	Goseck	Goseck Castle , Castle Church		II / P	19th
1872	61	Vienna	House of the Vienna Music Association		III / P	52	Replaced by a new instrument in 1907. → organ
1873	62	Goerlitz	Trinity Church		II / P	28	1910 reconstruction by Julius Röhle (new case), 1955 new building in the old case by Eule Orgelbau Bautzen (Opus 277, II + P / 28).
1875	65	Schafstädt	City Church of St. John		III / P	33	restored in 2005/2006 by Christian Scheffler's organ workshop
1875	68	Taucha	Village church		II / P	17th	restored 2009/2010 by organ builder Thomas Schildt (Halle)
1876	70	Posen (Poznan)	Parish Church of St. Bishop Stanisław		III / P	43	1917 Prospect pipes removed, 1928 electrical wiring, 2000/02 restoration by Schuke and Cepka
1877	72	Wins	Nikolaikirche		III / P	38	Destroyed in 1944
1878	74	Reval (Tallinn), Estonia	Mariendom		III / P	49	→ organ
1879	71	Munster , Westphalia	Apostle Church		III / P	36	Destroyed in 1945
1879	87	Ronneburg	St. Mary		III / P	32
1879	79	Pious	Ev. Johanneskirche		II / P	17th
1880	83	Spandau	St. Nikolai		III / P	45	Extension of a Wagner organ , destroyed in 1944.
1880	114	Naumburg	St. Othmar		II / P	20th	Replaced in 1980
1881	91	Altenburg	Bartholomäikirche		III / P	39	1905–1909 pneumatic action by Oskar Ladegast; Supplemented by Fernwerk in 1922; 1949 rearrangement; 1974 electric game table, electropneumatic action; after damage caused by construction work 1976–1986 general overhaul 1989/1990, today 44 registers (75% of which are original)
1882	90	Rudolstadt	ev. city church St. Andreas		III / P	33	until 1915 some technical changes and extensions (roller) by son Oskar Ladegast, restored 2003–2005 by Hermann Eule Orgelbau to the state of 1915
1882	93	Naunhof	City Church		II / P	21st	Restoration by the Wegscheider organ workshop since 2008
1883	101	Braunschweig	St. Andrew		III / P	48	Destroyed in 1944
1883	94	new York	Private		II / P	4th	Circumstances and whereabouts unknown
1884	106	School gate	Auditorium of the Pforta State School		II / P	11	restored in 2005 by the organ building workshop Rösel & Hercher
1884	104	Poses -Gluschin (Poznan-Głuszyna)	St. James Church		II / P	14th	not playable since around 1985
1885	108	Wernigerode	St. John's Church		III / P	33	→ organ
1886	110	Wolmar (Valmiera), Livonia	Saint Simons Church		III / P	33	receive
1886	117	Chemnitz	Petrikirche		III / P	57	Restored in 2007/2008 by the Vleugels organ building workshop
1887	113	Wernigerode	St. Sylvestri Church		III / P	43	Demolished in 1972
1888	115	Chemnitz	City Church of St. Jakobi		III / P	62	Eliminated in 1912
1888	116	Mittweida	ev. city church		III / P	39	only housing received
1888	121	Weissenfels	Auditorium of the Goethe grammar school		I / P	6th	restored in 2000 by master organ builder Thomas Hildebrandt
1888	120	Derenburg	ev. St. Trinity Church		II / P	25th	→ organ
1888	119	Danstedt	ev. St. Udalrici Church		II / P	24	→ organ
1889	122	Großgestewitz	ev. church		I / P	7th	Slider chests
1890	126	Geringswalde	Martin Luther Church		III / P	50	was renewed by Schmeisser in 1926 and

Oscar Ladegast

Around 1892 the son Oscar Ladegast took over the company and ran it as Friedrich Ladegast & Sohn . More than 70 new organs are known from him.

year	Op.	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1892		Siersleben	ev. St. Andrew's Church
1894		Ring life	St. Bartholomew Church		II / P	19th
1895		Have to	Protestant church		II / P	17th	Part of the monument no. 4 of the city of Hilchenbach. 1974 brought back to the original disposition from 1895.
1895		Altena , Westphalia	Luther Church		III / P	32	Behind the baroque prospect from approx. 1760, romantic new building, pneumatic; replaced by a new building by the Führer company in 1974
1898		Deep valley	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	14th
1898		Kroonstad, South Africa	Low German Reformed Congregation		II / P	18th
1900		Leipzig-Connewitz	Paul Gerhardt Church		III / P	33	Replaced in 1973
1900		Naundorf	St. Johannis		II / P	10
1903		Cape Town, South Africa	local community		I / P	5
1903		Langenleuba-Niederhain	St. Nikolai		II / P	17th
1906		Lugau, Ore Mountains	Protestant church		II / P	36	receive
1906		kassel	Church of the Resurrection		II / P	25th	Destroyed in 1943
1914		Kiama	Christ Church Anglican Church		II / P	25th

More work

Were expanded or restored, etc. a. the following instruments:

• Leipzig (Mende organ from 1843)
• Meerane (Friderici organ from 1753)
• Lützen ( Kreutzbach organ from 1839)
• Altenburg ( Trost organ from 1739)
• Naumburg ( Hildebrandt organ from 1746 and Gerhardt organ from 1887)

literature

• Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-86568-020-8
• Holger Brülls (Ed.): Friedrich Ladegast in Pforta , commemorative publication on the restoration of the historic Ladegast organ in the auditorium of the Pforta State School, Schulpforte 2005
• Franz G. Bullmann:  Ladegast, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 383 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hermann J. Busch: Friedrich Ladegast and Silbermann , in: Freiberger Studies on Organ 5 (1997), pp. 60–68
• Hermann J. Busch: Article: Ladegast , in: Music in the past and present , personal part, Vol. 10, Kassel / Stuttgart 2003, Sp. 998–1000
• Hermann J. Busch: The resounding tongues in Friedrich Ladegast's organs and their use , in: Acta Organologica 28 (2004), pp. 313–323
• Hermann J. Busch: Friedrich Ladegast - Masters of the Old School , in: Ars Organi 53 (2005), pp. 144–153
• Hermann J. Busch (Ed.): The Nikolaikirche in Leipzig and its organs , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-374-02205-7
• François Comment: Friedrich Ladegast et l'orgue de la cathédrale de Schwerin , in: La Tribune de l'Orgue 57 (2/2005), pp. 3–13
• Alexander Koschel: In the course of time - The Ladegasts and their organs , book + CD-Rom, Orgelverlag Fagott, Friedrichshafen 2004, ISBN 3-00-013898-6
• Alexander Koschel: Friedrich Ladegast and his organ in the St. Marien church in Weißenfels , (Weißenfelser Heimatbote, 3/1997)
• Alexander Koschel: Friedrich Ladegast and his organ in the St. Marien church in Weißenfels , (Die Auslese, 3/1997)
• Alexander Koschel: Friedrich Ladegast and his organ in the St. Marien church in Weißenfels , (Forum Kirchenmusik, 1/1998)
• Alexander Koschel: Friedrich Ladegast - a brilliant organ builder of the 19th century , (Festschrift, Weißenfels 1998)
• Alexander Koschel: Since everything is great now , (Triangel - MDR-Magazin, 5/1998)
• Alexander Koschel: Friedrich Ladegast organ of the St. Marien church in Weißenfels , (bassoon, 1998)
• Alexander Koschel: Weißenfelser Ladegast-Kollegium eV , (Argos - Wirtschaftsmagazin, 1/1999)
• Alexander Koschel: Ladegast-Kollegium eV - a new face (Forum Kirchenmusik, 4/1999)
• Alexander Koschel: Friedrich-Ladegast-Organ of the City Church of St. Peter zu Hohenmölsen , (bassoon, 2000)
• Alexander Koschel: Friedrich Ladegast organ of the parish church in Posen , (bassoon, 2000)
• Alexander Koschel: Friedrich Ladegast - the organ builder from Weißenfels , ( Ars Organi , 4/2001)
• Alexander Koschel: Organs in the Weißenfelser Land , ( Orgel International , 3/2001)
• Alexander Koschel: Organs in the Weißenfelser Land , (bassoon, 2001)
• Alexander Koschel: Since everything is French now (on the planned reconstruction and expansion of the organ of the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig), ( Ars Organi , 4/2001)
• Alexander Koschel: Ladegast organ of the parish church in Poznan , ( Ars Organi , 2/2002)
• Alexander Koschel: 150 years of the Ladegast organ of the town church St. Peter zu Hohenmölsen , (Ars Organi, 4/2002)
• Alexander Koschel: Johann Friedrich Ladegast - on the 100th anniversary of death , (bassoon, 2004)
• Alexander Koschel: A lighthouse in the turbulent sea - on the 100th anniversary of the death of Friedrich Ladegast (1818–1905) , (Music and Church, 3/2005)
• Alexander Koschel: A Ladegast organ for the cathedral in Chur? - On the 100th anniversary of the death of Friedrich Ladegast (1818–1905) , (Music and worship / Switzerland, 3/2005)
• Alexander Koschel: Solid as a rock - on the 100th anniversary of Friedrich Ladegast's death (1818–1905) , (Forum Kirchenmusik, 5/2005)
• Walter Ladegast (ed.): Friedrich Ladegast - The Organ Builder of Weissenfels , Weidling Verlag, Stockach 1998, ISBN 3-922095-34-8

Discography

• The Ladegast organs - anniversary edition on the 100th anniversary of Friedrich Ladegast's death , 6 volumes. FAGOTT-Orgelverlag, Friedrichshafen.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Ladegast  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Friedrich Ladegast in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Ladegast & Sohn Orgeldatabase, 145 organs (Dutch)
• Friedrich Ladegast's biography at MDR in the section History of Central Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 180
2. ↑ Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 206
3. ↑ Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 238ff.
4. ↑ Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 328
5. ↑ Holger Brülls: Friedrich Ladegast in Pforta , Schulpforte 2005, p. 67
6. ^ Walter Ladegast: Friedrich Ladegast. The organ builder from Weißenfels , p. 137.
7. ↑ To the Ladegast organs in detail * Alexander Koschel: In the course of time - The Ladegasts and their organs ,, Orgelverlag Fagott, Friedrichshafen 2004, ISBN 3-00-013898-6 , with descriptions, dispositions, complete list of opus, cf. also 149 Ladegast organs Orgeldatabase (Dutch), using the Koschel book. A list that goes back to Ladegast himself with opus and (sometimes slightly different from this list) register numbers also with Walter Ladegast: Friedrich Ladegast. The organ builder from Weißenfels , p. 160f.
8. ↑ Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 199
9. ^ Propsteikirche Lissen photo, without organ explanations
10. ^ Organ Orgeldatabase (Dutch), with incorrect title Kutkūnai, (confusion Osterfeld with East Prussia )
11. ↑ Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 215ff.
12. ↑ Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 236.
13. ↑ Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944. Volume II, 2. From Johann Preuss to E. Kemper & Sohn, Lübeck / Bartenstein . Siebenquart, Cologne 2015. pp. 669–672
14. ↑ ^{a b} Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 256
15. ↑ The Ladegast organ in the Protestant church in Biederitz
16. ↑ organ in Schwerin organ index
17. ^ Organ in St. Jakob Koethen organ index
18. ↑ Organ in Görlitz Dreifaltigkeitskirche Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
19. ↑ Musicam Sacram organ , with history, photos and disposition (Polish)
20. ↑ Organ Wirtualne Centrum Organowe, with history and disposition (Polish)
21. ^ Barbara Löwe: Altenburg. St. Bartholomew Church . Sell, Altenburg 2001, ISBN 3-9807546-0-X , p. 10
22. ↑ Organ Organ Database (Dutch)
23. ↑ Organ Wirtualne Centrum Organowe, with history and disposition (Polish)
24. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony: Preservation of Monuments in Saxony, 2008 yearbook , p. 89
25. ↑ Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 341
26. ↑ Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 63
27. ↑ Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 56
28. ↑ Holger Brülls: Ladegast organs in Saxony-Anhalt , p. 350
29. ↑ Organ Databank: Geringswalde, Germany (Saxony) - Martin Luther Church
30. ↑ "The great Alfred Schmeißer organ from Geringswalde" on kirche-waldheim-geringswalde.de/
31. ↑ List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 16.1, District Mansfeld-Südharz (I), Altkreis Eisleben, developed by Anja Tietz and others, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 978-3-7319-0130-3 , page 45
32. ↑ Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexikon Norddeutscher Orgelbauer, Volume 1: Thuringia and Bypassing, p. 177. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4
33. ^ Organ building news . In: Paul de Witt (Hrsg.): Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau . tape 15 , no. 35 . Leipzig September 1895, p. 911 .
34. ↑ Organ Organ Database (Dutch)
35. ↑ Organ Organ Database (Dutch)
36. ↑ Organ Organ Database (Dutch)
37. ↑ Organ Organ Database (Dutch)