Organ builder Rainer Kilbert

Orgelbau Rainer Kilbert is a German organ building company from Bavaria based in Hönighausen near Regensburg in the Upper Palatinate .

Life

Rainer Kilbert (* 1964) grew up in Amberg . There he attended the musical Max-Reger-Gymnasium with an advanced course in music (organ) and passed his Abitur in 1983. He learned the profession of organ builder from Georg Jann in Allkofen near Laberweinting in Lower Bavaria . He then worked with August Hartmann in Regensburg , then with Johannes Schädler in Donaustauf , mainly as a designer and voicer.

In 2004 he founded his own company in Hönighausen, which he has been running full-time since 2008. His main activities are renovations, extensions, conversions and new intonations of organs, mainly in Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria.

In addition, Kilbert is involved in organ research and has worked as a part-time church musician in parishes in the Regensburg diocese for decades.

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
2006	Kallmünz	St. Michael		I / P	5	Transfer from Wolfsbach with conversion of the choir organ by Martin Binder (1916)
2008		Private		I / P	7th	Extension of the organ by Werner Bosch Orgelbau (1975, I / 4)
2009	Ensdorf	St. James		II / P	19th	General overhaul of the organ by Martin Binder (1913) in the case by Andreas Weiss (1782)
2009	Schwend (Birgland)	Ev. Christ Church		II / P	11	New intonation of the organ by Günter Ismayr (1975)
2010	Fürnried	St. Willibald		II / P	12	Reconstruction and re-intonation of the organ by Erich Bauer (1974)
2011	Barbing	St. Martin		I.	6th	New building, remote control behind the high altar, Henry Speechly pipework (1900), London
2012	Dachau	Caritas retirement home		I / P	4th	Transfer of the organ from Klaus Becker (1965) from Hamburg, expansion to I / 5
2012	Neunkirchen (Weiden)	St. Dionysius		II / P	13	Restoration, reconstruction of the organ by Martin Binder (1913)
2013	Schwarzenfeld	Ev. Christ Church		I / P	6th	Reconstruction and extension of the organ by Georg Holländer (1958) to II / 10
2014	Old butterflies	St. Bartholomew		I / P	6th	New building in the housing of Michael Weiß (1808)
2015	Koppenwall	St. Bartholomew		I / P	7th	New building in a housing from the 19th century.
2015	Duggendorf	Sacrifice of the Virgin		II / P	15th	New intonation of the organ by August Hartmann (1988)
2016		Private		II / P	15th	Transfer of the organ from Griffen & Stroud (1905, Bath, GB) from Wales, conversion and expansion to II / P / 16
2017	Regendorf	Holy Trinity		I / P	6th	New construction of a side parapet organ, pipework z. T. from GB
2017	Bad Abbach	Holy Family		III / P	10	Transfer from Regensburg, rearrangement, new intonation of the organ by August Hartmann (1989)
2018	Altmannstein	To the Holy Cross		II / P	18th	Reconstruction, new intonation, extension of the organ by Ludwig Plössl (1963) to II / P / 21
2018	Waidhaus	St. Emmeram		II / P	20th	General overhaul and rearrangement of the organ by Weise (1981)
2019	Eitlbrunn	St. Michael (Eitlbrunn)		II / P	13	Reconstruction of the organ by Michael Weise (1961), extension to II / 15
2019	Wenzenbach	Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church (Wenzenbach)		I / p	5	Transfer from Kirchheim / Teck, remodeling, relocation of the organ by Richard Rensch (1964)
2019	Dachau	Ev. Reconciliation Church in the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site		II / P	12	Case optimization, disposition correction and intonation of the organ by Van Vulpen (Utrecht, 1967)
2020	Ensdorf	House chapel of the monastery		II / P	18th	General overhaul of the organ by Albert Reiser (1951), reconstruction of the wind turbine
2020	On the mountain	St. Catherine		I / P	9	General overhaul after church restoration and intonation of the organ by Johann Conrad Funtsch 1753 and August Hartmann (1990)

Publications

• The Amberg organ builder Friedrich Specht. In: Oberpfälzer Heimat . 1984, pp. 86-95.
• The organs of the city of Amberg. In: The Upper Palatinate. Laßleben, Kallmünz 1991, p. 228 ff.
• On the organ history of the Pursruck parish church. Festschrift for the organ consecration. 1991
• The organs of the parish of Kallmünz. In: The Upper Palatinate. Laßleben, Kallmünz 2007, issue 2.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg, report on the school year 1982/83, p. 41, 100ff, 150ff.
2. ↑ Organ in Schwend, Christ Church , accessed on June 22, 2020.
3. ^ Organ in Fürnried, St. Willibald , accessed on June 22, 2020.
4. ^ Organ in Schwarzenfeld, Christ Church , accessed on June 22, 2020.
5. ↑ Organ in Regendorf, Holy Trinity , accessed on June 22, 2020.
6. ↑ Mittelbayerische.de of December 23, 2017: A queen makes the pastor happy. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
7. ^ Parish of St. Emmeram Waidhaus , accessed on June 22, 2020.
8. ^ Ensdorf Monastery: Organ renovation in the house chapel completed. Retrieved June 22, 2020.