Manufacture d'Orgues Muhleisen

Manufacture d'Orgues Muhleisen is an organ building company that was founded in Strasbourg in 1941 .

history

Ernest Mühleisen (born March 26, 1897 in Echterdingen ; † December 10, 1981 in Strasbourg) learned organ building from Orgelbau Friedrich Weigle and Edmond Alexandre Roethinger (1866–1953). His brother Gotthold Mühleisen was operations manager at Weigle. In 1941 Ernest founded the family business "Manufacture d'Orgues Muhleisen" in Strasbourg. In the following year, Mühleisen employed his brother-in-law Alfred Kern and restored historical organs by Andreas Silbermann , among other things , until Kern set up his own company, Alfred Kern & fils, in 1953 . Georges Emile Walther (* 1929, † 29 July 2019) was from 1948 employees, built modern brochures and developed tracker action of aluminum. From 1970 to 2005 André Schaerer was responsible for intonation . Ernest Mühleisen's grandson Georges F. Walther (* 1954) has been in charge of the business since 1980. From 1988, Jean-Christophe Debely shared the intonation work with André Schaerer. The company has been led by Patrick Armand since 2008.

The company currently has around sixteen employees (as of 2016). By 2008 over 140 instruments had been restored or renovated and over 220 new organs were built.

Konrad Mühleisen is a nephew of Ernest Mühleisen, who also worked for Weigle and founded the Orgelbau Mühleisen company in Leonberg in 1986 .

List of works (selection)

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1952	4th	Strasbourg	Ste-Aurélie		III / P	53	Restoration and reconstruction of the organ by Andreas Silbermann (1718)
1955		Marmoutier	Marmoutier Monastery		III / P	28	Restoration of the organ by Andreas Silbermann (1707–1710)
1970	90	Bulach	Reformed Church of Bülach		III / P	36	New building. The organ was voiced by Adrien Maciet.
1974	120	Zurich	St. Peter		III / P	52
1976-1977	151	Munich	St. Boniface Abbey		III / P	51
1977	152	Glattfelden	St. Joseph		II / P	10	op. 152
1979	157	Saarbrücken- Herrensohr	Kreuzkirche		II / P	17th
1980	184	Elversberg	Protestant church		II / P	19th	including registers from the previous organ by Oberlinger (1890)
1983	173	Paris	Ev.-luth. Les Billettes Church		III / P	29
1987	182	Poing	St. Michael		III / P	43	→ organ
1988	186	Backnang	St. John		III / P	35 (43)	HW / RP: classic-French, recit: French-romantic. Eight of eleven pedal registers are transmissions that are constructed using alternating loops .
1994	202	Marienberghausen	Evang. church		II / P	14 (18)	mechanical action, attached pedal; all pedal registers are transmissions
2000	211	Bad Gandersheim	Gandersheim Monastery		III / P	42
2000	212	Bergen (District of Celle)	St. Lamberti Church (Bergen)		III / P	34	Prospectus in baroque tradition, case from 1828
2004	221	Harsewinkel	St. Paul		III / P	35	in the French-romantic style
2010–2012		Marienmünster	Marienmünster Abbey		III / P	44	Restoration of the organ by Johann Patroclus Möller (1736–1738)
2015		La Rochelle	Saint-Sauveur		III / P	38	New building in the historic housing by Simon-Pierre Miocque (1780)

Web links

• www.muhleisen.fr

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 269.
2. ^ ^{A b} Manufacture d'Orgues Muhleisen: History , as seen on August 16, 2013.
3. ↑ List of restorations (PDF file; 172 kB), viewed August 16, 2013.
4. ↑ List of new buildings (PDF file; 45 kB), viewed August 16, 2013.
5. ^ Organ in Strasbourg, Ste-Aurélie. Retrieved October 31, 2019 . 
6. ^ Organ in Marmoutier , accessed on October 31, 2019.
7. ^ Organ at St. Peter in Zurich , accessed on October 31, 2019.
8. ^ Marienberghausen Evang. Church. Retrieved October 31, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Bergen, Ev.-luth. Parish, St. Lamberti. Retrieved October 31, 2019 . 
10. ^ Organ in Harsewinkel , accessed on October 31, 2019.
11. ^ Organ in Marienmünster , accessed on October 31, 2019.