Wall organ in the Handel House in Halle
| Wall organ in the Handel House in Halle | |
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| General | |
| place | Handel House in Halle |
| Organ builder | Johann Gottlieb Wall |
| Construction year | 1769/70 |
| Last renovation / restoration | before 2003 |
| epoch | Late baroque |
| Organ landscape | Saxony-Anhalt |
| Technical specifications | |
| Number of registers | 12 |
| Number of rows of pipes | 17th |
| Number of manuals | 1 |
| Tone tract | Mechanically |
| Register action | Mechanically |
The organ in the Handel House in Halle (Saale) is one of the most important exhibits in the museum's musical instrument collection. It dates from 1770 and was originally made by the organ builder Johann Gottlieb Mauer for the village church in Tegkwitz . After a stopover in Leipzig, it has been installed in the Handel House since 2003.
history
Tegkwitz
The late baroque church organ was made by Johann Gottlieb Mauer in 1769/1770 for the Protestant village church of St. Marien in Tegkwitz near Altenburg . First discussions about building a new organ took place in 1768. The instrument should cost 340 Reichstaler. It originally had 11 registers with a manual and pedal . On October 17, 1770, the organ was checked by the Altenburg court organist Johann Ludwig Krebs and found to be good.
Two more registers were added by 1812, as a cost estimate from 1812 shows, namely a vox humana 8 'and a trombone bass 16'. Further alterations, also of a sound nature, were carried out around 1816 by the Stadtroda organ builder family Poppe . The Altenburg company Heinrich Hegermann replaced the keyboard around 1913 . There were also changes to the disposition. At the turning point of the First World War in 1917 , the tin organ pipes had to be handed over to the armaments industry .
Leipzig
In the 1970s, the organ, which had been in poor condition for decades, was sold for 500 marks on the initiative of the Tegkwitz pastor Klaubert. His concern was the church organ before advancing lignite - opencast mine to protect. It was stored in the Nathanael Church in Leipzig-Lindenau until the fall of the Wall .
Halle (Saale)
In 1993 the Handel House acquired the Wall Organ. The head of the restoration studio Roland Hentzschel and his team carried out extensive work from 1993 to 1996. He was supported by the organ builders Hartmut Schütz and Reinhard Schäbitz from Dresden. The Handel House received financial support from the city of Halle, the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the federal government. The previously missing bellows and the organ bench were subsequently bought in Tegkwitz .
The organ with the inventory number MS-639 has been set up in an extension of the Handel House since 2003 and is one of the most important and largest exhibits in the musical instrument collection. Thematically, it can be classified alongside the organ positives .
Technical specifications
The wall organ is comparatively small in size, but 5.5 meters high. It has nine registers on the manual and three registers on the pedal, which corresponds to the original disposition . The pitch a 1 is 466 Hz ( chorus ) at 18 ° C. The mood is well-tempered according to Georg Andreas Sorge (1764).
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- Secondary registers: Vacant *, Windcoppel, Tremulant *, Calcantenruf (* registerbuttonavailable, but unoccupied)
literature
- Felix Friedrich , Vitus Froesch: Organs in Saxony-Anhalt. A travel guide (= publication by the Society of Organ Friends . 268). Kamprad, Altenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930550-79-1 , pp. 72-75, 236.
- Christiane Reiche: Historical musical instruments in the Handel House. Guide to the exhibitions. Handel House, Halle an der Saale 2006, ISBN 3-910019-22-6 , pp. 78–80.
Web links
- Information on the organ in the museum-digital project
- Wall organ in the organ database orgbase.nl