Paul Müller (organ builder)

Replica of the Müller organ in Stockholm, 2004

Paul Müller (* around 1582 ?, † after 1631 ) was a German organ builder who worked in Sweden .

Life

Paul Müller came from Spandau near Berlin. In 1607 the German Organ Builders Association in Stockholm asked him to build a new organ for the German church there. Some parts of this instrument are preserved in Övertorneå , as the oldest organ in Sweden. Replicas of the expanded version from 1651 are in Stockholm at the old square and in Norrfjärden. Another five new organs built by Müller in Sweden are known.

List of works

New organs

year	place	building	Remarks
1608/1609, 1779	Övertorneå	church	Built in 1608/1609 for the German Church in Stockholm (II / P, 21), expanded in 1622 and 1651, relocated in 1779, restored in 1998/1999 → organ
1614	Vika	church	not received
1615	Västerås	Dom	from 1703 conversions, not preserved.
1618-1620	Tuna	church
1628	Sundborn	church
1631	Aspeboda	church	Relocated to Mockfjärd in 1860, replaced there in 1977.

literature

Uwe Pape : Müller, Paul. In: Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4: Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017, p. 385.

Individual evidence

↑ . Övertorneå kyrka Orgues France with current extended disposition (French)
↑ Düben organ Deutsche Kircbe Stockholm (German)
^ Ibo Ortgies : Övertorneå and Hedenäset (Finnish. Hietaniemi). Origin in Stockholm, Tyska kyrkan. In: Mechanics of Poetry II. The organ in the 17th and 18th centuries. Greifenberg Institute for Musical Instrument Studies, Greifenberg (Bay.) 2008.
↑ Dispositions The organ side (restricted access)
↑ The organ in Hedenäset is the Rückpositiv of the expanded organ in Stockholm, which was installed in 1622 and is probably not made by Müller
↑ Kult och Konst. Tidskrift , 1907, p. 109

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German organ builder in Sweden
DATE OF BIRTH	uncertain: around 1582
DATE OF DEATH	after 1631

[1] . Övertorneå kyrka Orgues France with current extended disposition (French)

[2] Düben organ Deutsche Kircbe Stockholm (German)

[3] Ibo Ortgies : Övertorneå and Hedenäset (Finnish. Hietaniemi). Origin in Stockholm, Tyska kyrkan. In: Mechanics of Poetry II. The organ in the 17th and 18th centuries. Greifenberg Institute for Musical Instrument Studies, Greifenberg (Bay.) 2008.

[4] Dispositions The organ side (restricted access)

[5] The organ in Hedenäset is the Rückpositiv of the expanded organ in Stockholm, which was installed in 1622 and is probably not made by Müller

[6] Kult och Konst. Tidskrift , 1907, p. 109