Nicolaas Niehoff

Nicolaas Niehoff (* around 1525 in Amsterdam ; † around 1604) was a German-Dutch organ builder who worked in the Duchy of Brabant , in Liège and in the Rhineland . He was the son of Hendrik Niehoff .

In 1559 he received the citizenship of 's-Hertogenbosch . Before 1567 he married Jaecxke (or: Jacomyn) de Ruyther († after 1600) and had three children with her: Jacob, Adriaan and Zeger. Jacob (* around 1565; † 1626) was the last organ builder in this family. He lived in Cologne, was married to Anna von der Schleiden († 1626) and had four children with her. In 1569 he moved his workshop from 's-Hertogenbosch to Cologne . Arend Lampeler van Mill was his business partner until 1573.

List of works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1556-1563	Brielle	St. Catharijnekerk		II / P	approx. 19	So the disposition around 1740 after 3 renovations; Dismantled in 1853
1557	Brouwershaven	Saint Nicholas Church				With his father?
1559	Zoutleeuw	St. Leonhard				Extensive, but not known, work
1569-1573	Cologne	Cologne Cathedral , large organ		III / P	25th	Large extension remodeling, which equated to the new building; Housing Gothicized in the 19th century, not preserved
1573-1574	Cologne	St. Gereon				Together with Arend Lampeler van Mill; Case burned in 1943
1584-1585	Mainz	Mainz Cathedral				Restoration of the great organ; not received
1586	's-Hertogenbosch	Dominican Church				New building
1589	Liege	St. Denis				Housing received in modified condition
1593	Bree	Sint Michaelskerk				Attribution, transferred to Beek / Martinuskerk in 1780 ; Housing and register received
1593-1594	Hasselt	St. Quintinus Cathedral				New building; Case and 8-9 registers preserved, which are among the oldest pipework in Belgium
1600	Liege	Saint-Jacques				Attribution; Housing received

literature

• Hans Klotz: About the organ art of the Gothic, the Renaissance and the Baroque. Music, disposition, mixtures, lengths, registration, use of the pianos . 3. Edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1986, ISBN 3-7618-0775-9 .
• Maarten Albert Vente: The Brabant Organ. On the history of organ art in Belgium and Holland in the Gothic and Renaissance ages . HJ Paris, Amsterdam 1963.
• Maarten Albert Vente: Niehoff, Hendrik . In: Music in the past and present . 1st edition. tape 9 . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1961, p. 1512–13 (CD-ROM version, Directmedia, Berlin 2001 (digital library, volume 60)).
• Johann Jakob Merlo :  Niehoff, Nicolaus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 668.

Web links

• Organ Hasselt (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vente: Die Brabanter Orgel , pp. 76–84, 267; Vente: Niehoff , p. 1511.
2. ^ Organ in Beek , accessed on August 19, 2020.