Otto Diedrich Richborn

Otto Diedrich Richborn (* 1674 in Hamburg ; † 1729 ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Little is known about Richborn biographically. He came from Hamburg, where he was born as the son of the well-known master organ builder Joachim Richborn . When he was ten years old, his father died. Between 1697 and 1700 he was Arp Schnitger's journeyman . He then went into business for himself and was the only organ builder in Hamburg to consistently continue the Schnitger tradition. He lived "Auf dem Sande", where his sister celebrated her wedding in 1715. His brother Johann Albert helped in the organ workshop and took over the house after Otto Diedrich's death.

plant

In addition to various repairs, there is only evidence of a major new organ that Richborn carried out in the St. Pauli Church (formerly in the St. Pauli district, now in Altona). This organ only had to give way to a new building in 1932 according to the ideas of Hans Henny Jahnn . A preserved draft of the Richborn organ's case shows that he followed Schnitger's principles in the construction and exterior design of the organ.

During his apprenticeship at Schnitger, Richborn can be identified as his apprentice alongside Christian Vater and Nicolai Gerdes in the new building in Oldenbrok in 1697 and in repair work on the organ of St. Lamberti in Oldenburg in 1699/1700 alongside the apprentice Johann Matthias Naumann . Richborn was also involved in Schnitger's new construction of the organ by St. Cyprian and Cornelius (Ganderkesee) .

In 1704, as an independent organ builder for Dieterich Buxtehude , Richborn repaired the large organ in Lübeck's Marienkirche and delivered three new registers, which, according to Buxtehude's judgment, were only "cymbal" and had to be overhauled the next year. In 1712 and 1719 he carried out repairs in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Hamburg-Hamm) and in 1720 in the Franciscan Church of St. Maria Magdalena.

One year after Johann Sebastian Bach had unsuccessfully applied for the position in St. Jacobi in 1720, on September 16, 1721, at the instigation of the new organist Johann Joachim Heitmann, a detailed contract was signed with master "Reichborn" for maintenance measures and repairs to the Schnitger organ closed by St. Jacobi . Also in 1721, Richborn tuned the organ in Hamburg's Heilig-Geist-Hospital a half tone lower. A small organ with eight registers from 1723 was exported to La Orotava ( Tenerife ) and restored by Bartelt Immer in 1990 . More extensive repairs were carried out in St. Severini (Hamburg-Kirchwerder) in 1727–1729 and at the same time in 1727–1728 on the organ in St. Cosmae et Damiani (Stade) . However, Richborn did not change the pipe inventory.

List of works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1697	Oldenbrok	Christ Church		II / p	12	Collaboration in the new building by Schnitger as his journeyman; Replaced 1752–1754
1699	St. Cyprian and Cornelius	Ganderkesee		II / p	16	Collaboration in the new building by Schnitger as his journeyman; preserved → organ from St. Cyprian and Cornelius (Ganderkesee)
1699/1700	Oldenburg (Oldb)	St. Lamberti		III / P	35	Collaboration as Schnitger's journeyman in repairs to Hermann Kröger's (1635–1642) organ ; Replaced in 1800
1704	Lübeck	Marienkirche		III / P	35	Repair of the big organ and extension by 3 stops; not received
1712, 1719	Hamburg-Hamm	Trinity Church (Hamburg-Hamm)		II / P	21st	Repair of the Schnitger organ (1694–1695); not received
1720	Hamburg	St. Mary Magdalene		II / P	23	Repair of the organ by Gottfried Fritzsche (1629–1630); not received
1718-1721	Hamburg-Altona-Altstadt	St. Pauli Church		II / P	27	The organ was rebuilt , which was largely preserved until 1932; pipe material possibly preserved in the Mennonite Church in Friedrichstadt
1721	Hamburg	Main church Sankt Jacobi		IV / P	59	extensive repairs; Pipe inventory preserved → Organ of the main church Sankt Jacobi (Hamburg)
1721	Hamburg	Holy Spirit Hospital				Retuning of the organ by Joachim Appeldohm (1640–1643); not received
1723	La Orotava , Tenerife	San Juan Bautista		I.	8th	New building; receive
1727-1728	Stade	St. Cosmae et Damiani		III / P	42	extensive repairs to the organ by Berendt Hus / Arp Schnitger (1669–1688); preserved → organ from St. Cosmae et Damiani (Stade)
1727-1729	Kirchwerder	St. Severini		II		extensive repairs to the organ by Hinrich Speter (1641); received some registers

literature

• Jan von Busch: The lost Schreiber organ in Koldenbüttel and its organ-building organists . In: Ars Organi . tape 66 , no. 2 , 2018, p. 73–82 (The article covers on pp. 78–80 details on the history of the Richborn organ in the St. Pauli Church (Hamburg-Altona-Altstadt) ( 73–76 online , PDF).).
• Mads Kjersgaard, Dietrich Wölfel: Two positives by the organ builder Jochim Richborn from 1667 and 1673 . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2005, ISBN 3-7950-1267-8 .
• Ibo Ortgies : The practice of organ tuning in northern Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries and its relationship to contemporary music practice . Göteborgs universitet, Göteborg 2004 ( gbv.de [PDF; 5.4 MB ] rev. 2007 version).
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .
• Heimo Reinitzer (Hrsg.): The Arp Schnitger organ of the main church St. Jacobi in Hamburg . Christians, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7672-1187-4 .
• Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 .
• Kurt Piper: On the genealogy of the Hamburg organ building family Reichborn . In: Journal for Low German Family Studies . tape 43 , 1968, ISSN  0044-3190 , pp. 43-50 .
• Gustav Fock: Hamburg's share in organ building in the Low German cultural area . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . No. 38 , 1939, pp. 289-373 ( agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de - Richborn on pp. 361-364).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 76.
2. ^ Fock: Hamburg's share in organ building. 1939, p. 361 ( agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de accessed December 10, 2012.)
3. ↑ Illustration by Busch: The submerged Schreiber organ. 2018, p. 81.Busch points out that older pipe material was used in a school organ built in 1831 for the school in Koldenbüttel . He gives reasons for the possibility that this pipe material could have come from the former Richborn organ in St. Pauli. The school organ is now located in the Mennonite Church in Friedrichstadt (Busch: Die untergangene Schreiber-Orgel. 2018, pp. 77-78 and 80).
4. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, pp. 129, 137.
5. ↑ Ortgies: The practice of organ tuning. 2004/2007, p. 291, gbv.de (PDF; 1.6 MB).
6. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 67 f.
7. ^ Reinitzer: The Arp Schnitger organ. 1995, pp. 289-291.
8. ^ Vogel: Organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 156.