Mathis organ building

Mathis Orgelbau AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1960
Seat	Näfels , Switzerland
management	Hubert Stucki ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) / Franz Xaver Höller
Number of employees	16 (2016)
sales	1.5 million CHF (2016)
Branch	Musical instrument making
Website	www.mathis-orgelbau.ch

The Mathis Orgelbau AG is an organ building company in Näfels in the Swiss canton of Glarus .

history

The company was founded in 1960 by Manfred Mathis as a family company. In 1977 Orgelbau M. Mathis & Co. , which had been organized as a limited partnership until then, was converted into a stock corporation. In addition to the production of organs, it has made a name for itself worldwide through the restoration of historical musical instruments from different epochs. The company is a member of the Society of Swiss Organ Builders .

The number of organs built by Mathis amounts to more than 350 pieces.

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1966	Unterstrass (City of Zurich)	Brother Klaus		III / P	40
1974	Eichstatt	Guardian Angel Church		III / P	40
1975	Affoltern (City of Zurich)	St. Catherine		II / P	22nd
1978	Ried im Innkreis	City parish church		III / P	35	behind historical housing
1981	Zurich - Altstetten	Holy cross		III / P	35
1981	Ingolstadt	Franciscan Church		III / P	35	→ organ
1982	Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate	City parish church St. Johannes		III / P	43
1984	Planks	Chapel of St. Joseph		I / P	7th
1985	Mallersdorf	Monastery and parish church of St. John the Evangelist		III / P	35	New building in the historic prospectus of the Bayr organ by Christian Jorhan the Elder. Ä. (1783) → organ
1985	Schlierbach (Upper Austria)	Collegiate church		II / P	31	Consistently baroque disposition. Brochure by Valentin Hochleitner (1770)
1986	Zurich - Riesbach	Redeemer		III / P	32
1992	Olten	St. Martin		III / P	50	New building to replace the organ built in 1932
1995	Freiburg in Breisgau	Ludwig Church		III / P	41
1996	Eichstatt	St. Walburg Monastery		II / P	27	Prospectus from 1743. → Organ
1997	Goerlitz	St. Peter and Paul		IV / P	88	“Sonnenorgel”, new building (III / P / 64) behind the prospectus by Eugenio Casparini (1703); 2004 Reconstruction of the solar mixture (III / P / 65); 2006 Installation of the swell
1999	Munich	St. Anna im Lehel monastery church		II / P	23
1999	Pilsach	Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul		II / P	16
1999	Vatican city	St. Martin		II / P	12
2000	Mariazell	basilica		II / P	29	New building, so-called "Mariazeller Organ"
2001	Kyoto	Doshisha University		I.	6th	New construction, mechanical play and stop action
2002	Rome	Sistine Chapel		II / P	14th	Josef Schibig from Steinen (SZ) made the carvings for the Mathis organ.
2002	Tokyo	Aoyama Gakuin University		III / P	39	New construction, mechanical game and stop action mechanism with electronically controlled setting system (double action mechanism)
2003	Basel	Basel Minster		IV / P	78	New construction, mechanical game and stop action mechanism with electronically controlled typesetting system (double action mechanism).
2003	Mariazell	basilica		III / P	54	New building in a historical case, so-called "Viennese organ"
2004	Au am Inn	Monastery church		II / P	21st	Prospect from the 18th century, probably by Johann Christoph Egedacher . → organ
2006	regensburg	Collegiate church to the old chapel		II / P	40	New building in a classicist prospect by Josef Kollhaupt with carvings by Simon Sorg and version by Johann Georg Kollmüller (1797), based on the baroque disposition by Andreas Weiß (1797) → organ
2009	Schrobenhausen	St. Jacob		II / P	30th
2009	Lisbon	Monastery church of Santa Maria de Belém des Mosteiro dos Jerónimos		II / P	18th	New building with 2 game registers, mechanical game and register action.
2012	Schliersee	St. Sixtus		II / P	28
2012	Feldbach	Leonhard's Church		III / P	46
2015	Ingolstadt	St. Anton		II / P	36

literature

• The Mathis organ in the St. Anna monastery church in Munich's Lehel . (Festschrift for the organ consecration, May 23, 1999.).
• The new Mathis organ in the parish church of Teublitz . Teublitz 1990.
• The new Mathis organ in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Breitenbrunn . Breitenbrunn 1997.
• The new Pope Benedict organ in Regensburg . In: Ars Organi . tape 54 , 2006.
• The Pope Benedict Organ in the Collegiate Church of Our Lady of the Old Chapel in Regensburg. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2006.
• New organ in the Ludwigskirche Freiburg i. Br. In: The church musician . tape 46 , 1995.
• New organs: Mathis Orgelbau AG . In: Music & Liturgy . tape 133 , no. 1 , 2008, p. 45-47 .
• Organ builder in Switzerland. Organ builder M. Mathis & Sons, 8752 Näfels GL. In: Singing and making music in church services . tape 118 , 1993, pp. 150-152 .
• Gottfried Allmer: The organs of the Mariazell basilica . In: The Organ Forum . tape 6 , 2004, p. 6-39 .
• Hans Rudolf Basler: The new organ of the Brother Klaus Church in Zurich . In: Catholic church music (choir guards) . tape 100 , 1975, pp. 241-243 .
• Hans Rudolf Basler: Organ consecration in Disentis . In: Catholic church music (choir guards) . tape 86 , 1961.
• Susann Bosshard-Kälin: Swiss craftsmen and artists in the Sixtina. A new organ for the Pope's private chapel . In: Singing and making music in church services . tape 127 , 2002, pp. 242-245 .
• Martin Czernin (ed.): The new choir organ in the abbey church of Our Lady of the Scots. Vienna 1994.
• Martin Czernin: The new Mathis organs in the Abbey Church of Our Lady of the Scots in Vienna . In: On the history of the organs in the Schottenstift . Vienna 1996, p. 2-18 .
• Marc Fitze: The Basel cathedral organ . In: Music and Worship . tape 58 , 2004, p. 91-93 .
• Hansjörg Gerig: The historic choir organ in the St. Gallen Cathedral . Näfels 2007 (221st publication by the Society of Organ Friends).
• Josef Holtz: Masterpiece of the art of organ building: City Church St. Nikolaus Wil SG. In: Catholic church music (choir guards) . tape 108 , 1983, pp. 231 f .
• Egon Krauss: L'organo della Chiesa Parrocchiale di S. Agostino (Collegiate Church) di Bolzano-Gries . In: L'Organo . tape 12 , 1974, p. 137-147 .
• Günter Lade: Ambitious organ architecture in Basel. A new Mathis organ is being built in Basel Minster . In: Organ - journal for the organ . tape 4 , no. 3 , 2001, p. 16-23 .
• Günter Lade: The Mathis organs of the Mariazell basilica - concept and technical structure . In: The Organ Forum . tape 6 , 2004, p. 50-71 .
• Günter Lade: The new organ of the Sistine Chapel in Rome . In: Ars Organi . tape 51 , 2003, p. 110-113 .
• Günter Lade: Organ building in Basel Minster . In: Ars Organi . tape 51 , 2003, p. 243-249 .
• Günter Lade (Ed.): The new organ of the Basel Minster. Basel 2003. (Contributions by Franz Christ, Peter Burckhardt, Christian Brückner, Andreas C. Albrecht, Felix Pachlatko , Rudolf Scheidegger, Hermann Mathis, Peter Märkli and Urs Fischer.)
• Franz Lüthi: The Abbrederis organ in the choir of the former Neu St. Johann monastery church . In: Bulletin OFSG . tape 26 , 2008, p. 33–38 (special issue GdO conference 2008 / Toggenburg).
• Hermann Mathis: The organ in the upper choir of the collegiate church in Einsiedeln. History and report of the restoration . Näfels / GL 1987.
• Manfred Mathis: The new organ in the Evangelical Church in Hinwil / ZH . In: Catholic church music (choir guards) . tape 99 , 1974, pp. 19th f .
• Manfred Mathis: organ builder M. Mathis & Sons . Näfels / GL 1985 (on the 25th anniversary of the company (with catalog raisonné 1960–1985)).
• Gilberto Sessantini: Suoni e voci del Giudizio . In: Arte Organaria e Organistica . tape 9 , no. 45 , 2002, p. 26-31 .
• Markus Zepp: Cuboid and Cloud. The new organ in the dome of the Mariazell basilica . In: Organ International . tape 4 , 2000, pp. 338-342 .

Web links

Commons : Mathis Orgelbau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mathis Orgelbau AG website
• Society of Swiss Organ Builders (GSO)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry of "Mathis Orgelbau AG" in the commercial register of the Canton of Glarus on March 31 , 2016 , company number: CHE-340.878.312
2. ↑ Roman Summereder : Aufbruch der Klänge. Materials, pictures, documents on organ reform and organ culture in the 20th century. Edition Helbling, Innsbruck 1995, ISBN 3-900590-55-9 , p. 321.
3. ↑ Monika Soffner-Loibl: Mallersdorf - former. Benedictine Abbey Church and Parish Church of St. Johannes Ev. Kunstverlag Peda, Passau 2009, ISBN 978-3-89643-752-5 . P. 21f.
4. ^ Website of Mathis Orgelbau AG , accessed on December 9, 2016
5. ↑ Catalog of works: Rome, Vatican (VA), St. Martin. Mathis Orgelbau, accessed on September 22, 2019 . 
6. ↑ GdO: Orgelspiegel 2001. Gdo.de, accessed on July 1, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Long nights in the Sistine Chapel. swissinfo. Swissinfo.ch, December 24, 2002, accessed on July 1, 2010 . 
8. ↑ Location register 1975–2009 - locations of organs. (DOC) rkv.ch, archived from the original ; Retrieved December 7, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Basel Minster. Baslermuenster.ch, archived from the original on June 25, 2012 ; Retrieved June 25, 2012 . 
10. ^ Lisbon (PT), Santa Maria de Belém. mathis-orgelbau.ch, accessed on January 23, 2016 .