Nitrowski (organ builder)

Nitrowski was an important family of organ builders in Poland in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Organ builder

Georg Nitrowski

Console of the organ in Olkusz after the restoration (Flentrop Orgelbouw, Zaandam, 2015-2018)

Georg Nitrowski (handwritten Georgius Nitrofsky , Polish Jerzy Nitrowski ) was a son of Stanisław Nitrowski and probably came from Waralia in Upper Hungary (today Spišské Podhradie in Slovakia). In 1630 he completed an organ by Hans Hummel in Levoča in Upper Hungary (now Slovakia ) and in 1633 in Olkusz, Poland . This is the oldest surviving organ in Poland . He first settled in Danzig around 1649 and built new organs for the cathedrals in Poznan and Gniezno in 1660 and 1667 . He then worked in Konitz, which had been damaged by a city fire, before coming back to Gdansk in 1672, where he was mentioned for the last time the following year.

Andreas Nitrowski

Andreas Nitrowski (Polish Andrzej Nitrowski ) was Georg's older son. He was mentioned in 1673 while working in Danzig with his father and in the following years with some other works. He died in 1698 while building an organ for the cathedral in Sandomir .

Daniel Nitrowski

Daniel Nitrowski was Georg's younger son. He was first mentioned in work in 1683. He built an organ for the Frauenburg Cathedral , the prospectus of which has been preserved to this day.

Organs (selection)

Georg Nitrowski

Georg Nitrowski built organs for the cathedrals in Gniezno and Posen , and continued that of Hans Hummel in Levoča and Olkusz . The latter is the oldest surviving organ in Poland. In addition, some repairs are known, especially in Gdansk .

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1630-1632	Leutschau (Levoča), now Slovakia	St. Jacob		II / P	25 or 27	Completion of the organ by Hans Hummel ; Housing from the main work and Rückpositiv, wind chest of the Rückpositiv with about 6 registers (including Principal 4 '), as well as parts of the organ gallery preserved
1631-1633	Olkusz	St. Andrew		II / P	31	Completion of the organ by Hans Hummel, restored by Flentrop in 2015–2018, oldest playable organ in Poland. All wind chests, action mechanisms, 25 of 31 registers (including 5 reed flute registers soldered together) and the console have been preserved in the original
1638-1641	Krakow (Kraków)	St. Mary		II / P	29	Reconstruction of the renaissance organ and extension by two pedal towers, not preserved
1642	Warsaw (Warszawa)	?				Mention of activities
around 1641–1644?	Koniecpol	St. Trinity		II / P	25th	New building, attribution uncertain. All wind chests, large areas of the tone and partly the stop action mechanism and 15 old stops (including a reed flute soldered on) are original.
1649-1650	Danzig (Gdansk)	St. Catherine's		III / P	33	Extension with the construction of pedal towers, housing partially preserved
1652	Danzig	St. Mary				Repairs
1654-1660	Gniezno (Gniezno)	Dom		II / P	32	New building, housing burned in 1945
1658-1660	Danzig	St. Bartholomew		III / P	35	Expansion with the construction of pedal towers
1667	Posen (Poznan)	Dom				New building, destroyed in 1773
1672	Danzig	St. Mary		II / P	34	small organ above the Reinhold chapel, repairs
1673-1675	Danzig	St. Mary		III / P	51	large organ, repairs and extensions with Andreas Nitrowski and Johann Balthasar Held

Andreas Nitrowski

Andreas Nitrowski began building a new organ in Sandomir's cathedral , which was completed by Matthäus Brandtner . In addition, another new building and some repairs by him are known, as well as some ascribed work.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1673	Danzig	St. Mary				Repairs and extensions with father Georg Nitrowski
1681	Letzkau	church				New building, replaced by Heinrichsdorff in 1904/05
1683	Danzig	St. Mary				Repairs with Brother Daniel
1697	Sandomir (Sandomierz)	Dom		II / P	30th	Prospectus preserved, died while the work was being carried out, completed in 1698 by Matthäus Brandtner , replaced by Homan-Jezierski in 1929, reconstructed in 1967 by Chwałek according to historical planning

Daniel Nitrowski

Daniel Nitrowski built a new organ for the Frauenburg Cathedral , the prospectus of which has been preserved. In addition, some repairs in Gdansk and other places are known, as well as some suspected work.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1683	Danzig	St. Mary				Repairs with brother Andreas
1683-1685	Frauenburg (Frombork)	Dom		II / P	30th	Prospectus received - organ
1697-1698	Danzig	Trinity Church		III / P	45	Prospectus received, the organ was reconstructed in 2018

literature

• Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca: History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1984. Volume 1. Weidlich, Würzburg 1984. pp. 135-139.

Web links

• Nitrowski rodzina Gedanopedia (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Organy Basilica St. Andreas Olkusz (Polish)
2. ↑ Organ Organs and Organ Builders in Slovakia (German)
3. ^ Organ St. Jacob Levoča
4. ↑ Otmar Gergelyi / Karol Wurm: On the history of the great organ in the parish church of St. Jacobi zu Levoča (Leutschau) . In: Acta Organologica . No. 11 , 1977, pp. 9-46 .
5. ↑ Organ Olkusz Flentrop, with planned disposition
6. ↑ Organy Basilica St. Andreas, with dispositions (Polish)
7. ↑ On the restoration of the organ in Olkusz Schwalbacher Zeitung of August 29, 2018
8. ↑ Contract of June 12, 1638, received in Archiwum Narodowe in Kraków, sign. 461, pp. 138–140
9. ^ Koniecpol (Kościół Trójcy Świętej). Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Jan Janca / Werner Renkewitz: History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944 . BI Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1984, p. 103-104 .
11. ↑ St. Marien Orgeln in Danzig (German)
12. ↑ Ks. Ireneusz Pawlak: Dzieje organów katedralnych w Gnieźnie . In: Roczniki humanistyczne . tom XXVII, no. 2 . Lublin 1979, p. 50 .
13. ↑ Jan Janca / Werner Renkewitz: History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944 . BI Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1984, p. 140-141 .
14. ↑ Jan Janca / Werner Renkewitz: History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944 . BI Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1984, p. 27 .
15. ↑ St. Marien Orgeln in Danzig (German)
16. ↑ Jan Janca / Werner Renkewitz: History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944 . BI Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1984, p. 143 .
17. ↑ Sandomierz Katedra organy.art, organ with disposition, Memento (Polish)
18. ^ Maria Konopka: Nieznane dokumenty z XVII wieku dotyczące budowy organów przez Andrzeja Nitrowskiego w kolegiacie pw.Narodzenia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Sandomierzu . In: Studia Organologica . B. III. Lublin 2009, p. 62, 63 .
19. ↑ Viktor Zygmunt Łyjak: Pravda i fałsz o zabytkowych organach katedry we Fromborku . In: Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie . No. 3 . Olsztyn 1996, p. 422-425 .
20. ↑ Jan Janca / Werner Renkewitz: History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944 . BI Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1984, p. 139 .