Martin Zaus
Martin Zaus (born May 20, 1861 in Oberlohma , Bohemia , † 1905 in Eger ) was a Bohemian organ builder. He built over 20 well-known organ works in Bohemia and Moravia .
Martin Zaus attended the elementary and trade school and completed an apprenticeship as an organ builder with Johann Georg Sommer in Lindenhau near Eger from 1877 to 1882 . From 1882 to 1886 he worked for Friedrich Ladegast in Weißenfels , from 1886 to 1889 for Friedrich Friese in Genoa and from 1889 to 1891 for Joseph Merklin in Paris and Lyon . In 1892 he started his own business in Eger.
Opus I for organ was recognized as an excellent work at the Eger exhibition in 1892 and was awarded a prize.
Organ works
- 1884 - Church of St. Nicholas in Cheb (Eger)
- 1895 - St. Mary's Church in Libochovany (Libochowan)
swell
- Wolf-Dieter Hamperl: Organ builders and organs in Eger and the surrounding area , 1992; Published in Art in Eger. Stadt und Land / Ed. Lorenz Schreiner , Stuttgart 2000
- Petr Koukal: The Martin Zaus organ from 1894 in the St. Niklas Church in Eger / Cheb , 2005; Published in: The Bohemian Lands as Organ Landscape. Festschrift Hans Nadler / Ed. Torsten Fuchs, Prague 2005
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Quoika: "The organ building in Bohemia and Moravia", in: Volume 2 of Orgelbau in Europa, Rheingold-Verlag 1966, page 174
- ^ A b "Contributions to Sudeten German Folklore, Volume 4", in: German Society of Sciences and Arts for the Czechoslovak Republic, Verlag F. Kraus 190, page 190 f.
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| SURNAME | Zaus, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organ builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberlohma , Franzensbad |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1905 |
| Place of death | Eger |