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Leopold Spiegel (* around 1680 ; † April 25, 1730 in Prague ) was a southern German organ builder in Prague.

Life

Leopold mirror grew in time to Further Austria belonging Fridingen on the Danube on. His ancestors came from Inner Austria. On February 12, 1712 he was released from civil rights in the city of Fridingen at his own request. In 1721 he received the citizenship of the city of Prague.

According to the Book of the Dead of the St. Wenceslas Church in Prague on the Lesser Town , Spiegel died in 1730 at the age of 50. One of his students was his nephew Hieronymus Spiegel , who after his apprenticeship in Prague worked in Austria.

plant

Leopold Spiegel built organs in central and northern Bohemia. The organs in Strahov and Manětín, a positive in Malovary, and brochures in Prague St. Ursula, Roudnice and Doksany have been preserved.

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1717/1727 Prague Loreto Church not received
1718 Prague Strahov Church of the Nativity II / P 19th receive
1720 Prague Servite Monastery, St. Michael not received
1721 Manetin (Manětín) St. Barbara Church
Den pro Barboru, varhany I (cropped) .jpg
 I / P 10 receive
1722 Prague ? I. 4th Positive, moved to Malovary in 1853 , preserved today in the regional museum
1726 Prague old town Franz Xaver Church not received
1727-1730 Prague New Town St. Ursula Church ? ? Prospectus received
1729 Raudnitz an der Elbe (Roudnice) Church of the Nativity of Mary
OrganofLeopoldSpiegelRoudnicenadLabem.JPG
 II / P 24 1910 new pneumatic building, housing preserved
1729-1732 Doxan (Doksany) Premonstratensian pen 1924 New building with preserved prospectus, organ in the National Museum in Prague
? Leitmeritz Dominican Church.

literature

  • Corbinian Gindele: The organ builders Leopold and Hieronymus Spiegel from Fridingen in Prague, Rottenburg and Waldsee . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1985.

Web links

Commons : Leopold Spiegel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Leopold Spiegel organ and organ builder in the Czech Republic, with a changing organ list (up to 9 instruments, Czech)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Organ in Strahov Organs and Organ Builders in the Czech Republic (Czech)
  2. ^ Organ in Manětín, organs and organ builder in the Czech Republic
  3. ^ Organ in Prague Organs and organ builder in the Czech Republic
  4. ^ Organ in Roudnice Organs and organ builders in the Czech Republic
personal data
SURNAME Spiegel, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder in Prague
DATE OF BIRTH around 1680
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1730
Place of death Prague