Marcussen & Søn

Marcussen & Søn
legal form	A / S (corporation)
founding	1806
Seat	Aabenraa , Denmark
Branch	Musical instrument making
Website	www.marcussen-son.dk/

Marcussen & Søn is a Danish organ building company . It is also known under the name Marcussen or formerly Marcussen & Reuter . The family business has been run by Claudia Zachariassen in the seventh generation since 2002. To date, over 1,100 instruments have been made, which have also been exported to numerous countries (including Germany, USA, Japan and South Africa).

history

The organ building company Marcussen was founded in 1806 by Jürgen Marcussen (1781-1860) and the first workshop was located in Vester Sottrup. In 1811 King Friedrich VI awarded him . the concession as an organ builder. In 1826, Marcussen accepted his German journeyman and friend Andreas Reuter , who is the inventor of the voting slots, as a partner in the company. They now operated under the name Marcussen & Reuter . The company has been based in the city of Aabenraa since 1830 . After the death of Andreas Reuter in 1847 - when the cathedral in Lund in the south of Sweden received a Marcussen organ - Marcussen then involved his son Jürgen Andreas Marcussen in the company in 1848 , which is why the company was renamed from Marcussen & Reuter and renamed it Marcussen & Søn received. After the company's founder died in 1860, Jürgen Andreas Marcussen became the sole owner of the company.

The first church organs the company made were in the baroque style. From the beginning of the 20th century, however, more emphasis was placed on technical innovations, e.g. B. improved pneumatics and electrification of the organs. However, this quickly turned out to be a mistake. Before the end of the 19th century, a great-grandson of the founder, Johannes Lassen Zachariassen (1864-1922), was accepted into the company, who between 1880 and 1890 was responsible for Marcussen & Søn in Finland. In 1897 Zachariassen first became a partner in the company, later in 1902 employed director. Under his son, Sybrand Zachariassen (1900–1960), who took over the company in the 1920s, they soon returned to the mechanical organ with open intonation. Marcussen & Søn was one of the first organ building companies in Europe to deal with the influences of the organ movement at an early stage and thus achieved international renown in the course of the 20th century. In addition to building new instruments, organ restorations are also carried out (including in Roskilde Cathedral ). The Marcussen & Søn company remained in the hands of the Zachariassen family until it was capitalized in 1994 by transforming it into a public limited company . Sybrand's daughter Claudia Zachariassen is the 7th generation CEO of the company together with Daniel S. Christensen, Sales Director who was involved in 2019 and also comes from the organ building industry. Over the years, the company has created around 1,125 church and concert organs (of which around 400 have been since 1960) and performed countless repair and maintenance work around the world. The four organ works in the Sint-Laurenskerk in Rotterdam can be named as a European example of the art of organ building by Marcussen & Søn . The main organ alone has 7,486 organ pipes: with its special construction with mechanical stop and action action, it is one of the largest organ works in Europe.

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1819-1820	You by	Sieseby Church		II / P	17th	Transmissions in the upper work and pedal , Expanded in 1893, replaced by a new work in 1969, the original work is located in the Marienkirche Hadersleben
1829	Christiansborg	Castle Church		III / P	38	Restored in 2009 by Marcussen & Søn
1845	Flintbek	Flintbeker Church		I / P	10	Rebuilt in 1972 by the company Tolle und Neuthor from Preetz using the old pipes
1852	Kirchbarkau	St. Katharinen (Kirchbarkau)		II / P	18th
1859	Pit / Holstein	St. Jürgen Church		II / P	16	Restored in 2007 by Orgelbau Neuthor, Kiel
1867	Ahrensbök	Marienkirche		II / P	24
1867	Breitenfelde	Breitenfelde Church		II / P	17th
1868	Krusendorf	Trinity Church		II / P	15th
1873	Nübel	Marienkirche		I / P	9
1874	Hattstedt	St. Mary		II / P	14th	Restored in 1987
1880	Rieseby	St. Peter's Church		II / P	15th	1959 neo-baroque redesigned, overhauled in 1976, 1992 and 2014
1890	Seven trees	St. Mary		II / P	12	Remodeled in 1978, 2011 by Paschen reconstructed
1891	Galmsbull	St. Gallus		I / P	10
1910	Uelvesbull	St. Nikolai		I / P	10
1912	Hamburg	St. Michaelis Church		II / P	42	One of the five organs of the church: "Concert organ" on the north gallery; Heavily reworked in the 1950s by the Walcker organ building workshop, restored to its original condition in 2009/2010 by Klais Orgelbau and Freiburg Orgelbau . See organ
1940	Copenhagen	Grundtvig Church		III / P	37	Choir organ
1952	Varde	Jacobi Church		III / P	33	Played by Marie-Claire Alain in her first recording of the entire organ by JSBach. in 1959; his favorite among the Danish organs of the time.
1953-1956	Aabenraa	Nikolaikirche		III / P	31	See organ
1956	Utrecht	Nicolaïkerk		III / P	33
1960	Stockholm	Storkyrkan		IV / P	53	→ organ
1962	Skagen	Skagen Kirke		III / P	31
1963	Schleswig	St. Petri Cathedral		III / P	51	New building behind the prospectus from 1701
1963	Hamburg	Church of the Twelve Apostles		II / P	18th
1964	Moerdijk	St. Stefanuskerk		III / P	28
1965	Freiburg in Breisgau	Freiburg Minster		II / P	21st	One of four organs of the Freiburg Minster : Longhouse organ ( swallow's nest organ ), playable individually and in combination from the central console
1966	Strandby (Frederikshavn Commune)	Strandby Kirke		II / P	10
1967	Helsinki	Dom		IV / P	57
1968	Seester (Schleswig-Holstein)	St. John		II / P	18th	Purely mechanical, 1 tremulant of the 18 registers. Built in two parts, the organist sits between the parts.
1968	Linz	Mary of the Conception Cathedral		IV / P	70
1970	Lübeck	Lübeck Cathedral		III / P	47
1973	Rotterdam	Laurenskerk (Rotterdam)		IV / P	85
1974	Frederikshavn	Frederikshavn Kirke		III / P	37
1977/2010	Meldorf	St. John's Church		III / P	43
1980	Hamelin	Munster St. Boniface		III / P	28
1983	Büsum	St. Clement's Church		II / P	26th
1988	Mannheim	Christ Church		II / P	31
1996/2011	Birmingham	Bridgewater Concert Hall		IV / P	76
1997	Meppen	Gustav Adolf Church		II / P	27
2000/2001	Wesel	Willibrordi Cathedral		III / P	56
2010	Mosjøen	Dolstad kirke		II / P	29
2010	Hammerfest	Hammerfest kirke		II / P	30th
2011	Asker	Holmen kirke		II / P	26th
2011	Oppdal	Oppdal kirke		II / P	26th
2015	Süderlügum	Marien Church		II / P	21st	Historic Rococo prospectus parts from the 18th century

literature

• Leopold Iwan Cirsovius : Life picture of the organ builders Marcussen & Sohn: together with a list of the organs supplied from 1848–91 a. the time, b. the size and the main provisions according to which all are built, as well as expert opinions. Jensen, Kiel 1891 ( digitized by HathiTrust ), with opus list 1–200.

New edition: Reinhard Jaehn (Ed.): Organ-Dispositions from Schleswig-Holstein. 194 dispositions and descriptions, 1868–1895 (= Documenta Organologica). Merseburger, Berlin 1986, ISBN 978-3-87537-217-5 , therein:

* Organ disposition of organs in Schleswig-Holstein. Kiel 1872

* The annual organ survey by LI Cirsovius, 1880–1894

* Life picture of the organ builder Marcussen and son. Kiel 1891

Web links

Commons : Marcussen & Søn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Marcussen & Søn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marcussen & Søn orgelbyggeri A / S. Retrieved August 15, 2020 (da-DK).