Matthias Dropa

Matthias Dropa (* between 1646 and 1665 in Transylvania ; † September 25, 1732 in Lüneburg ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Dropa worked as a journeyman for Arp Schnitger , probably between 1680 and 1692. In 1692 he founded his own workshop and on November 18, 1692 acquired citizenship in Hamburg. In 1696 he built new organs in Bargteheide and Hamburg-Finkenwerder . From 1698 to 1700 he expanded the organ in Cuxhaven -Altenbruch. In 1705 he moved to Lüneburg , where he and his journeyman Gerhard von Holy built a new organ in the Michaeliskirche . From 1712 to 1715, under the supervision of Georg Böhm, he added a free pedal to the organ in the Johannis Church in Lüneburg. Dropa was a teacher of Erasmus Bielfeldt , who can be traced back to him from 1707 to 1715. His son-in-law was the organ builder Johann Matthias Hagelstein , who married the daughter Catharina Margaretha on June 22, 1734.

List of works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1696	Hamburg-Finkenwerder	St. Nikolai				New building; not received
1696	Bargteheide	Ev.-luth. church				New building; Prospectus received
1698-1700	Cuxhaven - Altenbruch	St. Nicolai Church		II / P	28	Modification; 4 of 5 of its registers have been preserved
1705-1708	Luneburg	St. Michaelis		III / P	43	New building; Prospectus and 5 registers received
1708	Luneburg	St. Lamberti		I.	6th	1801 transfer to Camin, 1855 to Dreilützow village church ; get there. Attribution uncertain.
1712-1715	Luneburg	St. Johannis		III / P	46	Extension under the supervision of Georg Böhm ; a number of Dropa registers preserved in whole or in part → organs from St. Johannis (Lüneburg)

literature

• Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7

Web links

• Kathrin Heitmüller: The organ builder Matthias Dropa in the socio-cultural environment of his time (PDF file; 73 kB)
• History of the organ in Cuxhaven-Altenbruch
• Organ of St. John's Church in Lüneburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kathrin Heitmüller: The organ builder Matthias Dropa in the socio-cultural environment of his time , p. 4 (PDF file; 73 kB), viewed January 1, 2013.
2. ^ Stef Tuinstra : Groningen, Province of organs. In: The Organ Yearbook. 25, 1995, 66 (49-100).