Johann Matthäus Abbrederis

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Johann Matthäus Abbrederis (baptized April 17, 1652 in Rankweil ; † after 1725) was an Austrian organ builder . He was an important master organ builder in the Alpine Rhine Valley south of Lake Constance shortly before and after 1700. Stylistically, he was connected to the Baroque style of the 17th century and was unaffected by the South German late Baroque

Life

Abbrederis organ in the Amandus Church in Maienfeld

In 1691 Abbrederis built an organ in Thal (today in the Neu St. Johann monastery ). From 1693 he did an order for an organ in the Pfäfers monastery and in Fischingen. In 1711 he restored the great organ in the Konstanz Minster . In the 18th century, an organ for St. Luzi in Chur followed in 1712 , one in Sargans in 1717 and one in Maienfeld in 1725 .

Organs (selection)

There are 39 organs that were built by Johann Matthäus Abbrederis between 1688 and 1725.

  • Organ in the St. Francis Church in Mon GR , 1690. It is the oldest surviving instrument from Abbrederis. Probably only erected here between 1800 and 1810. Original location unknown.
  • Organ built for Thal, 1691, moved to Hemberg in 1883 , dismantled there in 1972 and stored at Mathis Orgelbau in Näfels, restored by Mathis in 1990 and installed in the monastery church in Neu St. Johann monastery .
  • Organ in the so-called Psallierchor of the collegiate church in Pfäfers monastery , 1693/1994. The organ was restored in 1972 by Orgelbau Th. Kuhn AG.
  • Organ in the Reformed Church in Sax , 1718.
  • Organ in the Amandus Church in Maienfeld, 1725. After contemporary modernizations in 1896 and 1725, the organ was restored in 1968 by the Metzler company from Dietikon, and in 2009 a general overhaul was carried out by the Metzler company

literature

  • Friedrich Jakob: The Abbrederisorgel in the psallier choir of the former collegiate church Pfäfers. In: Terra plana , VIII, 1973, 35-7.
  • C. Schweizer: Orgeln in der Region Nidwalden and Engelberg, 1983, pp. 15-17.
  • Hans Musch : The organ by Matthäus Abbrederis. 1690/91 in Neu St. Johann. Festschrift. Näfels 1993.
  • Friedrich Jakob, W. Lippuner: Organ landscape Graubünden. Publishing house Bündner Monatsblatt, Chur 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Schuler: A plan from 1777 for the renovation of the great Konstanzer Münterorgel . Ed .: Münstermusik Konstanz. Constance, S. 1 ( muenstermusik-konstanz.com [PDF]).
  2. ↑ a b Gottfried Allmer: Abbrederis, Matthäus. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online. Institute for Art and Music History Research, November 21, 2001, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Friedrich Jakob: Abbrederis, Matthäus. In: Grove Music. Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed February 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Rudolf Bruhin: Abbrederis, Matthew. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  5. ↑ a b Friedrich Jakob: Pfäfers - An Alpine Organ Type of the 17th Century. In: orgelbau.ch. Orgelbau Kuhn AG, 2006, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  6. ^ Alois Niederstätter: Vorarlberg 1523 to 1861. On the way to the country: History of Vorarlberg . Universitätsverlag Wagner, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7030-0911-2 ( google.de [accessed on February 26, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Klaus Mylius: Samuel Scheidt: Fantasia super I call to you Lord Jesus Christ . In: Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (Ed.): Yearbook 2010/2011 . BWV Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8305-3106-7 , pp. 195 ( google.de [accessed on February 25, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Alexander Koschel: The Matthäus-Abbrederis-Orgel (1690) in St. Franziskus Mon. In: http://www.organist-koschel.com . Alexander Koschel, accessed February 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Catholic Church Hember SG in the organ directory Switzerland-Liechtenstein
  10. ↑ New St. Johann, monastery church choir organ, Profile3 Kt. St. Gallen. In: Organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Peter Fasler, accessed February 25, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Barbara Anderegg, Barbara Anderegg: Organ restored. In: https://www.tagblatt.ch . St. Galler Tagblatt , January 28, 2013, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Friedrich Jakob: The Valeria organ: a Gothic work in the castle church in Sitten / Sion . vdf Hochschulverlag, 1991, ISBN 978-3-7281-1666-6 ( google.de [accessed on February 25, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Ref. Kirche Sax SG in the organ directory Switzerland-Liechtenstein , accessed on February 28, 2019.
  14. ↑ Organ. In: https://www.maienfeld-reformiert.ch . Evang. Maienfeld parish, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Abbrederis, Johann Matthäus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abbrederis, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH baptized April 17, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Rankweil
DATE OF DEATH after 1725