Organ engraving
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An organ engraving is usually an older graphic that was produced using the wood engraving or copperplate printing process and shows an organ , an organ prospectus or objects from the field of organ building as a motif .
Early organ engravings
One of the earliest surviving organ engravings is a copper engraving by Matthäus Merian from 1643. It depicts the newly built organ for the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Ulm , which the local organ builder Johann Husband had created two years earlier. This is the only illustration of an organ in Merian's extensive oeuvre. The husband's organ is no longer preserved; Thanks to Merian's work alone, knowledge of her appearance has been preserved to this day.
Hans Gerd Klais , the long-time head of the renowned Klais organ building company , has compiled an extensive collection of organ engravings from Beethoven's time over the decades . A selection of these prints was shown from December 3, 2000 to May 7, 2001 in a special exhibition entitled “The Queen of Instruments. Organ engravings from Beethoven's time from the Hans Gerd Klais Collection ”shown in the Beethoven House in Bonn .
meaning
Organ engravings from the early days of organ building represent, in addition to textual descriptions of the instruments in contemporary sources and the records of the master organ builders, valuable historical sources for music history research. They provide information about the number, size and arrangement of the pipes of the historical instruments as well as the size and that Appearance of the organ case and illustrate the development of the art of organ building over centuries.
For some organ builders, whose works have not been preserved, the prints are the only evidence of their work. For example, information about the designs of the organ builder Anton Berger (around 1660–1738) is only available through his in 1718 in Augsburg under the title “Accurater Entwurff completely newly invented and never before the daily Liecht Organ cases, along with the presentation of the upright and inverted Vaciati under a beautiful architecture ” , have been preserved, which were reissued as a facsimile by Hermann Fischer and Theodor Wohnhaas in 1979 .
In addition to views of the instruments, the stitches often also contain crack drawings or plan views with precise dimensions or representations of the work steps and techniques as well as the tools used. The most important organ building textbook of the 18th century by the French Benedictine priest and organ builder Dom Bédos with the title L'Art du facteur d'orgues (German: The Art of Organ Builder ), which was published in 1766, contains an impressive compilation of copperplate engravings on the subject of organ building until 1778.
literature
- Silke Bettermann, Michael Ladenburger: The queen of instruments. Organ engravings from Beethoven's time from the Hans Gerd Klais collection . Verlag Beethoven-Haus, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-88188-061-5 .
- Beethoven-Haus Bonn (ed.): The queen of instruments . ( online [PDF] short guide through the exhibition).
Web links
- Eight organ engravings , scans of the Berger organs from the work “ Accurater Entwurff gantz neu inventirter u. Organ cases never seen before ”in the online collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silke Bettermann, Michael Ladenburger: The queen of instruments. Organ engravings from Beethoven's time from the Hans Gerd Klais collection . Verlag Beethoven-Haus, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-88188-061-5 , p. 58-59 .
- ↑ Past special exhibitions. In: beethoven.de. Beethoven-Haus Bonn, December 3, 2000, accessed on March 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Detailed information on the work in the WorldCat bibliographic database .
- ^ Anton Berger: Organ Drafts. Augsburg 1718 . Ed .: Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas. Merseburger, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-87537-167-4 .