Marc Garnier

Marc Garnier (born July 14, 1947 ) is a French organ builder . He comes from an old Alsatian family.

Life

Marc Garnier studied after attending a technical high school at the State Technical University in Belfort . From 1965 to 1969 he did an apprenticeship in Strasbourg with the organ builder Kurt Schwenkedel. He then continued his education in Hamburg with Rudolf von Beckerath . He learned harpsichord making from Rainer Schütze in Heidelberg .

Garnier's organ building workshop employs seven people and has been in Les Fins since 1972 . Organ building contracts took him to Strasbourg, northern and southern Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Jordan and the USA. In Japan in 1991 he built a large rotating concert organ with two wings in the Grand Hall of the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater with a total of 126 registers and over 9,000 pipes , which is considered to be one of the most important organs in the country.

Works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1976	Strasbourg	Paulskirche (Strasbourg)		II / P	14th
1986	Kirchheim unter Teck	Church of the Resurrection		II / P	12
1986	Altenburg	Former parish church Altenburg		I.	3	Restoration of the organ by Ulrich Schreyer (around 1630)
1991	Tokyo	Grand Hall of the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater		III + V	126	revolving double prospectus with three organ works of different styles
1995	All Saints' Day in the Mühlkreis	Pilgrimage Church of All Saints in the Mühlkreis		I / P	10	Restoration of the organ (17th century)
1996	Waldshut	Ev. Church of Reconciliation		II / P	26th	with nightingale and Zimbelstern as well as additional organ positive with four registers (1996)
1995-1998	Rosenwiller	Assumption Day		II / P	19th
1999	Tübingen - Waldhäuser Ost	Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church		II / P	10

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry of the Garnier facteur d'orgues France at French Corporate
2. ↑ Entry on Marc Garnier at verif.com
3. ↑ Press release on the Marc Garnier organ building workshop, with pictures
4. ↑ ^{a b c} The Garnier organ in Tübingen with an explanation of the tuning "Garnier No. 7"
5. ↑ Disposition of the Garnier organ in Waldshut