Max Terletzki

Justus Maximilian Terletzki (mostly Max Terletzki ; † 1903 ) was an organ builder in Elbing and Königsberg in Prussia .

Life

Max Terletzki's father Joachim Terletzki was an organist in Schönbrück near Allenstein and also worked as an organ builder. Max learned from him and founded an organ building company in Elbing with his brother August in 1857 . In 1860 he went to Paris to Aristide Cavaillé-Coll , where he worked for eleven months as ouvrier en orgues . He then returned to Elbing, where he and his brother had built around 60 organs by 1871.

In 1872 Max Terletzki founded his own organ building company in Königsberg . He is said to have built a total of around 190 organs, plus further modifications and repairs. He created larger three-manual instruments in Thorn ( St. Johannes ), Bartenstein , Kętrzyn ( St. Georg ), both preserved, and Königsberg ( Old Town Church and Altroßgärter Church ). In 1902 Bruno Goebel took over the workshop.

List of works (selection)

New organs

Some of the approximately 190 organs have been preserved in present-day Poland and are marked in bold.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1878	Thorn	St. John		III / P	40	receive
1882	Rastenburg	St. George		III / P	42	receive
1884	Kumehn	church		II / P	16	destroyed after 1944
1886	Leunenburg	church		II / P	23	in the historical prospectus, in which Adam Gottlob Casparini had already placed an organ in 1745 ; Repaired by Terletzki until 1898, preserved
1886	Medenau	church		II / P	20th
1890	Löwenhagen	church
1895	Koenigsberg	Old town church		III / P	52	Destroyed in 1944/45
1897	Koenigsberg	Altroßgärter Church		III / P	?	in the baroque brochure by Adam Gottlob Casparini from 1744/1747, replaced by Wilhelm Sauer in 1913 , destroyed in 1944

Modifications and repairs

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1879	Thorn	St. Mary			31	Conversions
1880	Tilsit	German Church				Conversions, destroyed
1882	Drengfurth	Protestant church				Pedal installation. 1897 New organ built by Wilhelm Sauer
1888	Koenigsberg	Dom		IV / P	56	extensive renovations → organ , destroyed
1890	Kreuzburg	church

literature

• Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1945. Volume II, 2. From Johann Preuss to E. Kemper & Sohn, Lübeck / Bartenstein. Siebenquart, Cologne 2015, pp. 468–509.
• Uwe Pape , Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017, p. 451.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Terletzki Organ Building Institute in Elbing
2. ^ History of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944. In: organ - Journal for the organ. Retrieved September 18, 2019 (German). 
3. ↑ Sątoczno ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parish with photo of the organ