Michael Kanhauser

Michael Franz Kanhäuser , also Michael Franziscus Kannhäuser; Kanheuser; Conheißer (baptized September 26, 1634 as Michäel Kanheuser in Falkenau an der Eger , Bohemia ; buried April 7, 1701 in Falkenau an der Eger ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Michael Kanhäuser was a son of the native Falkenauers Matthäus Kanhäuser (1596–1674), citizen and master miller at the Schrottmühle, a water mill located directly on the Lobsbach, and his wife Elisabeth Geyer (1612–1693) from long-established Falkenau bourgeois family, who was married on November 22, 1633 .

Michael Franz Kanhäuser moved up to the Ore Mountains in 1650 to St. Joachimsthal , which is near the Saxon border, to do his apprenticeship there. His teacher was master Jacob Schedlich (1591–1669), organ builder, organist, schoolmaster, cantor and mayor. Schedlich had created the organs in Saaz, Komotau, Elbogen, Karlsbad, Eger, Graslitz, Oberwiesenthal, Wolkenstein, Plauen, Annaberg (St. Annen), and was therefore a respected master in his field. Kanhäuser's apprenticeship included not only organ building and playing, but also the maintenance of the church clock.

After completing his apprenticeship and traveling years, Kanhäuser was appointed organist according to plan , where he can be proven until the summer of 1662. From 1664 he can be found again in Falkenau an der Eger.

Signature of the organ maker and town clerk Michael Kanhäuser from 1696

There he was not only active as an honorable and artistic gentleman, organist and organ builder , but he also kept the books of the city council and the city administration as city ​​clerk in the 1690s . He signed as Michael Fran. Kannhäuser, pt town clerk . On October 3, 1693 he bought Matthes Kanhäuser's house in Falkenau am Ring from his siblings of his late father for 600 guilders, where he died in 1701.

Kanhäuser also cultivated relationships with the Upper Palatinate: See especially the works information on Pfreimd, Püchersreuth and the Eixlberg.

family

Michael Franz Kanhäuser married on January 24, 1655 in Plan, his 19-year-old bride Maria Salome Rabenstein (* 1635 in Plan) was a daughter of the artful Mr. Hans Rabenstein, master coin smith in Plan and Prague . This marriage resulted in at least eleven children, of whom the following four sons also became organ builders:

• Johann Matthäus Kanhäuser (1664–1696), organ builder in Falkenau an der Eger
• Michael Traugott Kanhäuser (* around 1667), organ builder
• Franziscus Dominicus Kanhäuser (1672–1716), organ builder in Falkenau an der Eger
• Johann Adam Kanhäuser (* 1678), organ builder in Plan and Thumsenreuth

There are organs from the four sons that have been preserved in Bergreichenstein and Bischofteinitz , among others . In the third generation, Johann Franz Kannhäuser , a son of Johann Adam Kanhaeuser and his wife Maria Clara Glaß (daughter of the doctor Johann G. in Plan), who was married in Plan in 1717, continued the organ builder workshop in Plan until his death in 1767.

List of works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1663	Mitterteich	St. James the Elder		I.	5	Positive, not received
1665	Pressath	St. George				not preserved, 1764 new building Funtsch , housing preserved.
1666	Speinshart Monastery	Monastery church				not preserved, 1716 new building Purrucker, housing preserved, therein Steinmeyer op. 2395 from 1996 (26 / II / P)
1666	Waldmünchen	St. Stephan				not preserved, 1977 new building way
1676	Brus	Assumption Day				Reconstruction in 1675 (?). The organ was destroyed in several fires.
around 1690	Pfreimd	Assumption Day		II	16	Housing preserved, in 1969 new Kloss building (25 / III / P). Pfreimd was the residence of the Counts of Leuchtenberg, who owned properties near Elbogen (Eger). This also included Falkenau, where Kannhäuser worked.
1692	Puchersreuth	St. Quirin		I.	8th	An attribution to Kannhäuser has not yet been proven by documents. Püchersreuth belonged to the imperial county of Störnstein with the seat of the von Lobkowitz in Neustadt an der Waldnaab. It is assumed that the organ was donated by Ferdinand August von Lobkowitz (close ties to Bohemia).
1701	Eixlberg near Pfreimd	St. Barbara				Design from 1701 (Kannhauser's year of death), the new building from 1752 by Andreas Weiß (10 / I / P) has been preserved.
1705	Thumsenreuth					not preserved, Johann Adam Kannhäuser (Kraus)
1718	Furth in the forest	Assumption Day		I.	10	not received, Johann Adam Kannhäuser. 1788 new building by Andreas Weiß , housing preserved

literature

• Michael Bernhard: Organ Database Bavaria , Version 5, 2009.
• Eberhard Kraus: Historic organs in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Taufmatrik Falkenau (1628–1657) p. 55.
2. ↑ Death entry Falkenau (burials 1658–1768), Anno 1701: Falckenau the 7th huius (April) is the honorary vesture and the well-respected Mr. Michael Frantz Kanhäußer, citizen and organ maker to the earth have been confirmed, the age 66 years
3. ↑ City books of the city of Falkenau, City Archives Falkenau (today in Heinrichsgrün Castle )
4. ↑ Michael Kraus: The Upper Palatinate and Bohemia - Streiflichter a musical neighborhood. Oberpfälzer Kulturbund.
5. ↑ http://www.onetz.de/bayern-r/kultur-by/koeniglicher-klang-besuch-bei-den-aeltesten-orgeln-der-oberpfalz-d1190155.html
6. ↑ Traubuch Plan 1655: January 24th. Is the honorable Mr. Michael Kanheiser, organist, von Falckenaw, and the virtuous girl Jungfrawen Maria Salome, des Ehrnvesten Mr. Hanß Rabenstein, citizen and Müntzschmidtsmeister al here married daughter by the WolEhrnv. Father Adalbertus Pelecius copulated. Show Hannß Fischer (? Tischer) and Georg Heroldt
7. ↑ http://loci.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/Qp/Musikalische_T%C3%A4tigkeit=Musiker
8. ^ Jiri Kocourek: Organ country Bohemia. In: Ars Organi , 57th year, issue 1, March 2009.