Michael Becker organ building

Michael Becker organ building
legal form	one-man business
founding	1955/1990
Seat	Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
management	Michael Becker
Branch	Musical instrument making
Website	www.becker-organs.com

The company Michael Becker organ building , founded in Tremsbüttel -Sattenfelde, copper mill, now in Freiburg , is a organ workshop that the since its beginning the tradition of organ reform in the sense of Albert Schweitzer and the use of mechanical tracker action feels connected.

history

The company was founded in 1955 by Klaus Becker (born March 5, 1924 in Baden-Baden ; † August 19, 2009). Becker was trained as an aircraft engineer from 1938 to 1942 and served in the war and in captivity from 1942 to 1945. From 1947 to 1955 he learned organ building from Rudolf von Beckerath organ building . Becker went into business for himself in 1955 and built organs in solid wood construction with a mechanical keyboard and stop mechanism and a traditional sound box from the start. The company was not only successful in northern Germany, but also exported to the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, the USA and Canada. By 1980 the list of works included 350 new organs and restorations. Becker had his Starup loop seals patented.

The son Michael Becker (born July 30, 1953 in Sattenfelde ) studied music in his father's company and graduated there in 1973 with the journeyman's examination. After almost ten years of traditional wandering with a focus on Hesse and Austria, he passed his master craftsman's examination in 1986. In 1990 he took over the management of the company under his own name and continued the company's tradition. After the death of his father in 2010, he moved the company headquarters to Freiburg im Breisgau .

In addition to new buildings that were built according to the classic organ building principles, the company has emerged through the restoration of historical organs, for example 1996 to 1998 with the Hartmann organ in the village church of Meßdorf from 1744 or the Stumm organ in Hasselbach, built around 1780 .

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1955	Hamburg-Bergedorf	Community House of the Christian Community		I.	3
1958	Reinbek near Hamburg	Catholic Sacred Heart Church		II / P	9	Price: 14,105 DM; dismantled in 1982
1959	Hamburg-Bergedorf	St. Mary		II / P	15th
1961	Undeloh	St. Magdalene		II / P	11	Restored in 1989 by Becker
1965	Weidenhausen	Protestant church		II / P	18th
1966	Dormagen	Mary of Peace		III / P	29
1968	Great Grönau	St. Willehad		II / P	18th	New building behind housing from 1689
1968	Luetjenburg	St. Michaelis		III / P	29
1969	Hamburg-Altona-Altstadt	St. Joseph Church		III / P	33
1969	Rimbach (Odenwald)	Ev. church		III / P	30th
1970	Kelkheim (Taunus)	Stephanskirche		II / P	14th
1970	Hamburg-Eißendorf	Ev. Apostle Church		II / P	18th
1972	Ahrensburg	St. Mary		II / P	17th	with Spanish trumpets, removed when the case was rebuilt in 2001
1972	Bosau	Petrikirche		II / P	16	with Spanish trumpets
1973	Ratzeburg	St. George on the mountain		II / P	25th
1974	Lübeck	Kreuzkirche		II / P	14th
1974	Gettorf	St. Jürgen		II / P	24	behind the historical prospectus by Marcussen & Søn (1866)
1974	Berkenthin	Maria Magdalenen Church		II / P	13	Renovated in 2010
1976	Gelting	St. Catherine's		II / P	19th	behind historical prospectus (1708/1794)
1976	Hagen-Berchum	Protestant church		II / P	12	The instrument has a historical prospect ("Spiegelprospekt" with hanging pipes) from 1732 and was presented at the opening concert of the first days of early music in Herne . → Organ of the Berchum Church
around 1980	Herborn	Chapel of the Theological Seminary		II / P	11	with Spanish shelf, originally built for the church music school in Frankfurt / Main and rearranged there by Förster & Nicolaus before 2004 , in 2004 transfer to Herborn by organ builder Schäfer
1981	fog	St. Clement's Church		II / P	18th
1981	Travemünde	St. George		II / P	11 (12)	→ organ
1983	Huerth	Martin Luther King Church		II / P	14th	with Spanish trumpets
1984	Lübeck	Lübeck University of Music		II / P	15th	originally medium-tone tuning, later based on Neidhardt
1984-1985	Hamburg-Altona-Altstadt	Theresienkirche		II / P	18th
1985	Dusseldorf	Heart of Jesus Church		III / P	48	Main organ
1985	Ratzeburg	Ratzeburg Cathedral		II / P	10	Paradise organ
1988	Hamburg-Langenhorn	Church Holy Family		II / P	22nd
1990	Flensburg	Catholic Marienkirche		II / P	23
1992	Elze - Bennemühlen	Ev. church		II / P	16
1993	Neuss	Quirinus Minster		II	8th	Positive with a second manual for shelf 8 ′
1995	Bargteheide	St. Michael		II / P	18th
1995	Twist rings	St. Anna		III / P	42	in Silbermann style
1996	Stadthagen	St. Joseph		II / P	28
1997	Rhode	Lutgeri Church		I / P	10
1997	Salzhausen	St. Johannis		II / P	18th	with four tongue registers in the style of Arp Schnitger
1997-1998	Schöningen	St. Lorenz		II / P	37
1998	Hamburg-Neuallermöhe	Edith Stein Church		II / P	16	Housing on an oval floor plan
1999	Bielefeld- Gadderbaum	St. Stephen		II / P	19th
2000	Oberwittighausen	St. Aegidius		II / P	13
2000	Bad Segeberg	Friedenskirche		II / P	17th
2001	Mannheim	Mary Queen Church		I / P	9
2003	Hamburg-Lohbrugge	Mercy Church		II / P	11	round housing
2004	Bühl-Eisental	St. Matthew		II / P	18th	Scale lengths partly after Gebr. Stieffel , Rastatt
2010-2011	Stuttgart	St. Conrad		II / P	27	Extension of the Vleugels organ (1969), in which the manual shop and 17 stops were taken over

literature

• Douglas E. Bush: Becker . In: Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Eds.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 59 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders. 1990, p. 147.
2. ↑ Douglas E. Bush: Becker. 2006, p. 59 ( online ).
3. ↑ Organ consecration in St. Konrad ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 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. , P. 6 (PDF file; 3.4 MB), viewed December 11, 2012. 
4. ^ Organ in Meßdorf , seen December 12, 2012.
5. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 412 f .
6. ^ Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 , p. 794 .
7. ^ Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 , p. 486 .
8. ↑ Peter Ulrich Schmithals: The old organ . In: Presbytery of the Evang. Berchum parish (ed.): 250 years of Berchum Church. Ev. Parish Hagen-Berchum 1981.
9. ↑ Jost Schmithals : The Organ Today . In: Presbytery of the Evang. Berchum parish (ed.): 250 years of Berchum Church. Ev. Parish Hagen-Berchum 1981.
10. ^ Organ in Hamburg-Neuallermöhe , accessed on August 4, 2019.
11. ↑ Stuttgart - St. Konrad. Retrieved September 29, 2019 . 

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