Organ of the parish church Bartholomäberg
| Organ of the parish church Bartholomäberg | |
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| General | |
| place | Parish Church of Bartholomäberg |
| Organ builder | Johann Michael Grass |
| Construction year | 1792 |
| epoch | Rococo |
| Organ landscape | Vorarlberg |
| Technical specifications | |
| Number of registers | 15th |
| Number of rows of pipes | 20th |
| Number of manuals | 1 |
The organ of the parish church Bartholomäberg is an organ from 1792 in the parish church Bartholomäberg in the parish of Bartholomäberg in Vorarlberg . The historical instrument has largely been preserved and has 15 stops on a manual and pedal .
Building history
The cartouche that closes the middle organ tower at the top bears the year 1792 and thus probably indicates the time this organ was built. For a long time this organ was attributed to the Alsatian organ builder Joseph Bergöntzle (1754–1819), who came to Vorarlberg at the end of the 18th century and built organ works in the parish churches of Au , Schlins , Bludesch and Tschagguns in the years 1799–1816 . Historical and stylistic reasons speak for the Vorarlberg organ builder Johann Michael Graß (* 1746 in Bürserberg , † 1809 in Lommis ) as the builder of the Bartholomäberg organ.
Johann Michael Graß married into the Thurgau organ building family Bommer. He married the daughter of Johann Jakob Bommer (died 1775) and worked for the prince abbey of St. Gallen until the end of the 1780s . He then created a number of organs in his home country, including that of the parish church of Bartholomäberg, which is one of the few instruments he has preserved. The fact that most of the Graß organs have been substantially changed or not preserved at all in the course of time may have something to do with their one- manual nature : If somehow (especially financially) feasible, one-manual organs were converted into multi-manual instruments in order to expand the organizational possibilities - mostly with the consequence of the loss of the original substance. And even the large three-manual Graß organ in the former monastery church, which has been the parish church of Neu St. Johann in Toggenburg in St. Gallen since the abolition of the Benedictine abbey in 1805 , was not spared from renovations.
The organ of the parish church Bartholomäberg has been able to preserve the largest percentage of the original substance of all known Graß organs. In terms of disposition and sound, it represents a high-ranking monument to the southern German-Austrian art of organ building at the end of the 18th century and as such points far beyond the national borders.
Alois Schönach (1811–1899), who ran an organ workshop in Rankweil between 1858 and 1874 and who by no means worked as a modernist organ builder in Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Switzerland and Liechtenstein , carefully expanded the Bartholomäberger Graß organ by installing a fourth pedal register on the occasion of renovation work ( Quintbass 5 1 / 3 ') and the conversion of the manual register Copel 8' in Bordun 16 '.
This historically evolved condition was the basis for the restoration of the Bartholomäberger Graß organ by the Swiss organ building company J. Neidhardt & G. Lhôte (St. Martin) in the years 1971 to 1973. Since then, the organ has been in the care of the Mayer brothers in Feldkirch.
Disposition since 1858–1874
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Recordings / sound carriers
- Bruno Oberhammer : Organ concert in Bartholomäberg. Works by Frescobaldi, Storace, Pasquini, Froberger, Poglietti, FT Richter, Murschauer, Haydn, Muffat, Oberhammer. CD. Stand Montafon / ORF regional studio Vorarlberg 2007975, 2004.