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Orgelbau Vier is a German organ building company based in Friesenheim ( Black Forest ). More than 350 new organs have emerged from the workshop.

history

Peter Vier (born December 29, 1930) learned organ building from 1950 under Wilhelm Wagner in Grötzingen and in 1957 became a partner in his workshop, which from then on traded as Wagner & Vier . In 1957 he passed his master craftsman examination and in 1965 became the sole owner of the company, which he relocated to Oberweier in the same year . Between 1957 and 1965 around 50 new organs were built, in the following 25 years he worked on around 250 organs, 70% of which were new and 30% were restorations. From 1974 to 1993 Peter Vier held a teaching position at the Trossingen University of Music . The organ builder Gaston Kern, who worked for Vier from 1968, founded 1974 in Hattmatt, Alsacethe "Manufacture d'orgues alsacienne" with the participation of Peter Vier. In 1991, Vier was made an honorary senator of the University of Tübingen .

Vier built organs in the Upper Rhine tradition and closely followed the organ building of Johann Andreas Silbermann and Johann Ferdinand Balthasar Stieffell . He regularly used hanging action with a mechanical slide drawer and liked to use pre-prints and alternating loops . The enclosures were designed to be open until 1960 and with frames until 1965, since then self-supporting enclosures made of solid wood have been used.

His son Martin Vier (* 1965) learned organ building from 1984 to 1988 and deepened his knowledge in 1988/1989 with Kern and Marc Garnier in France. In 1994 he passed the master craftsman's examination and took over the company in 1996. To date, more than 350 new organs have been built from Werkstatt Vier.

List of works (selection)

The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for a separate pedal.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1966	Baden-Baden	Old Catholic Church		II / P	24	New building
1969	Oppenau	St. John		III / P	38	Restoration of the organ by the sons of Johann Ferdinand Balthasar Stieffell (1832)
1973	Ettenheim	St. Bartholomew		III / P	43	New building behind the housing by Johann Ferdinand Balthasar Stieffell (1776)
1976	Münsingen (Württemberg)	Martinskirche		III / P	30th	New building behind upper case by Christian Gotthilf Haussdörffer (1759), lower case new, with coupling manual and 5 preliminary prints
1978	Pfullingen	Martinskirche		III / P	40	New building
1981	Oberkirch (Baden)	City parish church of St. Cyriak		III / P	35	New building with coupling manual
1985	Mannheim - Feudenheim	St. Peter and Paul Church		II / P	28	New building, 1 further register planned.
1986	Tübingen	James Church		II / P	19th	New building with 2 preliminary prints and 6 pedal transmissions via alternating loops → organ
1987	gain	Castle garden , music hall		IV / P	29	New building, 3 preliminary prints, pedal completely borrowed from the main work with 10 interchangeable loops
1988	Bietigheim-Bissingen	Kilian's Church		II / P	20th	New building with coupling manual, 3 alternating loops and 4 preliminary prints
1988	Emmendingen	Evangelical town church		III / P	32	New building with 4 drafts and 5 transmissions
1989	Tübingen	Pflegehof (Musicological Institute of the University)		IV / P	27	New construction, pedal completely borrowed with 9 transmissions from the Grand Jeu
1990	Pforzheim	Ev. method. church		II / P	14th	New building with 3 preliminary prints, pedal completely borrowed with 6 double loops from the main work
1990	Friesenheim	Ev. church		III / P	23	New building with 7 transmissions in the bass
1990	Nuremberg	St. Martha		II / P	28	New building with two pre-prints and coupling manual; Burned in 2014
1991	Horb am Neckar	Ev. church		II / P	21st	New building with 3 drafts
1992	Meßstetten	Ev. Lamprecht Church		III / P	38	New building with 3 drafts
1994	Nufringen	Ev. church		II / P	15th	New building with coupling manual, 1 preliminary print and 5 alternating loops
1994	Torgau	Castle Church		III / P	19th	New building with 2 preliminary prints and 4 alternating loops
1994	Kings	Peter and Paul Church		III / P	40	New construction with 2 advance prints, 4 extensions in the pedal and an expression pedal borrowed from 8 alternating loops from the swell mechanism
1997	Waldbronn	Wendelinkirche		III / P	36	New building, small pedal with 8 alternating loops to the swell
2001	Laas (South Tyrol)	St. John		II / P	28	Reconstruction of the organ by Josef Sies (1853)
2006	Alzey	St. Joseph		II / P	20th	New building incorporating wooden registers from the previous organ (around 1960), pedal complete with alternating loops to the main work, 2 transmissions
2008	Geinsheim	St. Peter and Paul		III / P	40	Reorganization of the organ of the Link Brothers (1903) including the original register, addition of the used registers of the time and 3 new registers
2010	Eutingen an der Enz	St. Joseph		II / P	20th	New building in the style of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll
2012	Worms	St. Martin		II / P	21st	New building, pedal complete with alternating loops to the main work

literature

• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 325 .
• Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 427 .

Web links

• Orgelbau Vier's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fischer, Wohnhaas: Lexicon of south German organ builders. 1994, p. 427.
2. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders. 1991, p. 325.
3. ↑ orgelbau-vier.com: Company history , accessed on October 27, 2017.