Marx Gunzer

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Marx Günzer (* around 1579 ; † 1628 in Augsburg ) was a German organ builder .

life and work

Marx Günzer moved to Augsburg in 1603 after completing his apprenticeship with Konrad Schott in Stuttgart . He became one of the most important organ builders in southern Germany, active in the first quarter of the 17th century. Numerous new constructions and conversions as well as repairs are documented. His brother Georg Günzer (1601–1631), Hans Jakob Denzler and Adam Casparini were his pupils and employees. In addition, Marx Günzer also built music automatons. His work for the Barfüßerkirche in Augsburg is currently the oldest known organ in southern Germany. After 150 years of use, it was transferred to Gabelbach and rebuilt several times. Among other things, in 1934 by Max Dreher , who equipped the until then mechanical organ with a pneumatic console, leaving the main work box and pneumatizing it with Bark levers .

List of works (excerpt)

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1608 augsburg Ortisei and Afra 13 Relocation and expansion of the organ by Eusebius Amerbach
1609 augsburg Barefoot Church I / P 11 Transferred to Gabelbach in 1758 , received
1614/15 augsburg St. Magdalena extension
1615 augsburg Dom Repair of the Ammerbach organ
1617 augsburg St. Anna Repair of the Behaim organ
1619 augsburg Ortisei

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marx Günzer in the Augsburger Stadtlexikon , accessed on December 27, 2016
  2. ↑ Franz Körndle: The history of Günzer organ from 1609 in Gabelbach . In: Ars Organi . Vol. 64, 2016/4, pp. 199–202, here p. 201.
personal data
SURNAME Gunzer, Marx
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Güntzer, Marx; Gentzer, Marx; Gintzer, Marx
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH around 1579
DATE OF DEATH 1628
Place of death augsburg