Peter Karhausen

Peter Karhausen (* 1950 in Aachen ) is a German organ builder with a workshop in Aitrang in the Allgäu .

Career

The son of a church musician learned from Klais in Bonn , came to Gerhard Schmid in Kaufbeuren in 1970 and started his own business in Aitrang in 1979 , where organ builders were already based during the baroque period. He built his masterpiece in 1980 for the pilgrimage church of St. Alban near Görwangs near Aitrang: Karhausen created a three-manual work based on the Dutch model for the case by Balthasar Freiwiss from around 1755, which is absolutely unique in the Allgäu. Karhausen works as a one-man business and is often for Dr. Sixtus Lampl, who set up a center for used and unloved organs in Schloss Valley . Karhausen also works as a freelance voicer for the Seifer organ building company in Kevelaer .

Characteristic

The organs by Peter Karhausen show a very differentiated intonation of the individual voices. Despite the steepness of the dispositions influenced by neo-baroque, the aliquots, mixtures and tongues are by no means intrusive, but rather mildly present and precisely drawn in polyphonic play.

Catalog raisonné

year	place	Manuals / registers	Remarks
1980	Görwangs, St. Alban	III / 30	Masterpiece, 1995 revision and conversion
1984	Oberammergau, Ev. Kreuzkirche	II (III) / 17
1985	Buchloe, Ev. church	II (III) / 19th
1986	Puchheim	II (III) / 16
1986	Kaufbeuren, private	II (III) / 7
1987	Aitrang, private	II / 7	entire organ swellable
1992	Kempten, Ascension Day	I / 5	Weekday chapel
1992	Huttenwang, St. Johannes	III / 19	four registers from Koulen
1993/2010	Kempten, Ascension Day	II / 20	New intonation of the Gerhard Schmid organ

literature

• Christian Kohler: Organs and organ builders in the Allgäu from 1850 to the present. Diploma thesis Augsburg 2007. Augsburg / Nuremberg University of Music.
• Hermann Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders. Lauffen 1991. Organ building specialist publisher Rensch