Orgelmakerij Reil

Orgelmakerij Reil is a Dutch organ building company in Heerde . The family company was founded in 1934 and has been run in the third generation by Hans Reil since 2001. More than 60 organs have been built or restored since 1985. Reil is considered one of the leading Dutch organ building companies for the restoration of historical organs. In addition to other countries, numerous instruments were exported to Austria, Norway and Japan.

Employee of the workshop in Heerde

history

Johann Reil (born April 6, 1907 - May 5, 1960) was born in Munich . He learned organ building from 1922 from Albert Moser and Leopold Nenninger in his hometown. After Reil had deepened his knowledge and skills in Augsburg and at the organ building company Zimmermann & Schäfer in Basel from 1928 to 1929 , he moved to the Netherlands in 1929 to build a cinema organ in the Tuschinski Theater in Amsterdam on behalf of Zimmermann & Schäfer . Between 1929 and 1934 he worked for Valckx & Van Kouteren , Flentrop Orgelbouw and De Koff in Utrecht. In 1934 he set up his own workshop in Rotterdam , which operated under the name Eerste Nederlandsche Orgelonderdeelen Fabriek and supplied organ parts for other companies. In 1937 the company moved to Heerde. Reil met his future wife Dien de Brake there in 1932. He built the first new organ for the Hervormde Kerk in IJmuiden-Oost (1938). From 1948 he built organs with mechanical action , for example for the Gereformeerde Kerk in Arnemuiden.

After his death, the workshop was continued by his two sons Han (20 years old) and Albert (17 years old), who both learned to build organs in their father's workshop. Han Reil immersed himself in voicing at Orgelbau Kuhn , Albert at Busch in Herten in pipe production. Through the contacts with Klaas Bolt and lastingly influenced by the Schnitger conference in Groningen in 1969 , the brothers decided to build an organ that was consistently historically oriented from the 16th to 18th centuries. As a result, the organs in the Ontmoetingskerk Dieren (1970) and the replicas of the Schnitger organ of the Jacobikerk Uithuizen (1701) for Scheveningen (1973), the Bielfeldt organ in Scharmbeck for the Tokyo College of Music (1979) and the Steevens Hinsz organ in Tzum (1765) for the Immanuel Kerk in Ermelo (1981). In addition to great admiration for the high quality, the replicas also received heavy criticism. Between 1983 and 2008 nine new organs were built in Austria; In 1989/1990 the famous organ was restored by Andreas Putz (1634) in Schlägl Abbey . Since 1979 14 newbuildings have been delivered to Japan and 13 to Norway. In addition to the church organs, the company built more than 40 house organs with eight to twelve registers (as of 2014). The company, which expanded under the name Gebroeders Reil , took over the business from Ernst Leeflang ( Apeldoorn ) in 1994 . A year later the company moved into a new workshop in Heerde.

When Albert fell ill and died in 2001, Hans Reil, Han Reil's son, took over the company. In 1992 he graduated from the Technical University of Enschede as a graduate engineer , joined the family business in 1993 and deepened his knowledge of intonation.

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1949	Drachten	Noorderkerk		III / P	31	New building using registers from the previous organ; Replaced in 1978, pipe material taken over in the new building of Pels & Van Leeuwen
1966	Visquard	Visquard Church		I / p	8th	New building behind historic housing (before 1680)
1968	Möhlenwarf	Möhlenwarfer Church		I / P	9
1969	Willum	Willum Church		I / P	10	New building
1970	Dieren	Ontmoetingskerk		II / P	10	New building
1973	Scheveningen	Prinses Julianakerk		II / P	23	New building as a copy of the Schnitger organ from Uithuizen (1701)
1978	Ritterhude- Werschenrege	To the Holy Cross		II / P	9	New building; 2008 Implementation from Den Ham ( Twenterand ), Gereformeerde Kerk (Vrijgemaakt) (De Fontein)
1979	Tokyo	Tokyo Music College		III / P	31	New building based on the organ by Erasmus Bielfeldt in St. Willehadi (Osterholz-Scharmbeck) (1734)
1981	Ermelo	Immanuelkerk		II / P	24	New building as a copy of the Steevens / Hinsz organ in Tzum (1764)
1982	Groningen	Noorderkerk				Parts of a Rohlfing organ from 1923 were used. The organ was dismantled in 2008 and taken to the Hervormde Kerk te Wapenveld .
1985	Vienna	Augustinian Church , "Bach Organ"		II / P	25th	New building
1988	Ancaster	Redeemer College		II / P	26th	New building
1989-1990	Schlägl	Schlägl pen		II / P	21st	Restoration / reconstruction of the organ by Andreas Putz (1634) / Johann Christoph Egedacher (1708)
1991	Stavanger	Stavanger Domkirke		III / P	51	New building including parts of the previous organ by Frobenius Orgelbyggeri (1941)
1992	Statzendorf	Parish church		II / P	14th	New building
1994	Villach	Church in the city park		II / P	18th	New building
1994	Hamburg-Eimsbüttel	University of Music and Theater		II / P	14th	Construction of a mid-tone organ in the Italian style
1996	Zutphen	Walburgiskerk		III / P	38	Restoration of the organ by Hans Henrich Bader (1639)
1999	Kampen	Bovenkerk		II / P	29	New building with trumpet register above the housing of the upper work → organs of the Bovenkerk (Kampen)
2003	Apeldoorn	Jachtlaankerk		II / P	14th	New building, mood after Johann Georg Neidhardt
2005	Tokyo	Shinanomachi Church		II / P	15th	New building
2004-2007	Ansbach	St. Gumbertus		III / P	46	Restoration / reconstruction of the organ by Johann Christoph Wiegleb (1736–1739)
2007	Be called	Church of the Redeemer		I / P	11	New building
2008	Wilten	Wilten Abbey		II / P	14th	New construction of a choir organ
2009	Rosenheim	City parish church of St. Nicholas		III / P	41	New building
1998-2011	Groningen	The aa-kerk		III / P	40	Restoration of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1702) → Organs of the Der Aa-kerk (Groningen)
2012	Amsterdam	Organ Park		II / P	5	Reconstruction of the Gothic organ by Peter Gerritsz (1479) from the Nicolaïkerk in Utrecht with block work in the main work (VII – XVIII)
2014	Bodegraven	Bethelkerk		II / P	27	New building incorporating old registers from the Van Dam brothers (1824)
2016	Lier (Norway)	Sylling Kirke		II / P	17th	New building
2015-2019	Amsterdam	Oude Kerk		III / P	54	Restoration of the organ by Christian Vater (1724–1726) / Johann Caspar Müller (1742)

literature

• Orgelmakerij Reil (Ed.): Harmonie en uitvoering. 75 years orgelmakerij Reil. Sheerde 2009.
• Wenzel Hübner: 21,000 organs from all over the world. 1945–1985 . P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 978-3-8204-9454-9 (sources and studies on the history of music from antiquity to the present; 7).

Web links

Commons : Orgelbau Reil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage (with list of works)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Orgelmakerij Reil: The history of the Reil organ building workshop , accessed on May 5, 2019.
2. ^ Orgelmakerij Reil (Ed.): Harmonie en uitvoering. 2009, pp. 25, 27.
3. ^ Orgelmakerij Reil (Ed.): Harmonie en uitvoering. 2009, pp. 27-29.
4. ^ Organ in Drachten , accessed on December 29, 2013.
5. ^ Organ in Dieren , accessed on December 30, 2013.
6. ^ Organ in Scheveningen , accessed on December 30, 2013.
7. ^ Organ in Tokyo , accessed December 29, 2013.
8. ^ Organ in Ermelo , accessed on December 30, 2013.
9. ↑ Redactie: Reil-orgel voor Hervormd Wapenveld | Orgelnieuws.nl. December 6, 2008, accessed February 3, 2020 (Dutch). 
10. ↑ Evangelical Church District on the Ruhr: Erlöserkirche - community inaugurates new Reil organ - - Evangelical Church District on the Ruhr. Retrieved February 3, 2020 (German). 
11. ^ Organ in Rosenheim , accessed on December 29, 2013.