Johann Peter Migendt

Johann Peter Migendt (also Migend , * 1703 in Birthälm , Principality of Transylvania , † September 19, 1767 in Berlin ) was a German organ builder in Berlin and successor to Joachim Wagner .

Life

Peter Migend came from Transylvania. From 1731/32 he worked for Joachim Wagner in Berlin, since 1741 his foreman after the death of Kallensee. A joint contract with Wagner for a new organ is known from 1747, in 1749 he took over his workshop. In 1755 Peter Migendt built a house in what would later become Münzstrasse 9 in the Spandauer Vorstadt, and in 1756 he received citizenship in Berlin.

Employees included Georg Friedrich Grüneberg (until around 1756) and Ernst Julius Marx , who probably took over the workshop after 1667.

List of works (selection)

New organs, conversions, two conversions, repairs, new construction offers and expert reports are known from Johann Peter Migendt. The organs in Ueckermünde (previously Berlin, New Church), the Amalienorgel in Berlin-Karlshorst (previously in the palace) and the organ in Ringenwalde have been preserved.

New organs

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1741	Trondheim , Norway	Nidaros Cathedral				Construction of the Wagner organ; receive
1744	Angermünde	St. Mary				with Wagner; received rescheduled
1749-1751	Berlin	St. Peter's Church		III / P	22nd	Completion of the organ begun by Wagner, at 40 feet the largest organ in Berlin at the time; Burned in 1908
1750	Hohenselchow	church				not received
1751	Stettin (Szczecin)	Castle Church		I / P	13	Construction contract July 30, 1750, inaugurated on May 2, 1751 in the presence of Frederick the Great, not received
1751/52	Szczecin	St. Gertruden Church		I / P	12	not received
1751/1752	Berlin	New church on the Gendarmenmarkt		I / P		Expanded by Buchholz in 1847, sold to St. Marien Uckermünde in 1881, preserved
1753	Berlin	Bethlehem Church		I.		Contract dated February 6, 1753, completed on September 27, 1753, destroyed in November 1943
1754/1755	Koepenick	City Church				Attribution
1755	Berlin	Castle Church		II / P	22nd	Amalienorgel, with Marx , completed December 1755; since 1767 in the Palais Unter den Linden, since 1788 in the Schlosskirche Buch , 1939 temporarily stored in the Marienkirche ; since 1956 in Karlshorst , parish church of the Happy Message, reconstructed in 2010 → organ
1755	Rixdorf	Bohemian Brethren		I (/ P?)	5
1758	Joachimsthal	church		I / P	12
around 1759	Grossmutz	church				Attribution
1760	Ringenwalde , Uckermark	Village church		I.	8th	Acceptance test October 25th, 1760, rebuilt in 1913, 2006 reconstruction and extension to include a separate pedal, preserved → organ
1761	Szczecin	St. Nikolai Church		II / P	26th	Migendt's largest organ. Financed by the estate of Jakob Friedrich Küsel. Destroyed in the fire of the church 9./10. December 1811
1762	Berlin	Workhouse, church		I / P	8th	not received

More work

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1746/1747	Berlin-Spandau	St. Nicholas Church				extensive repair of the Wagner organ from 1734; not received
1753	Berlin	Old castle and cathedral church		II / P	32	Realization and modification of the organ by Röder from 1720. Replaced in 1817 by a new building by Buchholz.
1754	Berlin	Jerusalem Church		II / P	26th	Renovation and extension of the Wagner organ from 1723 (originally from the old garrison church in Potsdam)
1756	Szczecin	Jakobikirche		III / P	46	Repair of the organ by Matthias Schurig and Arp Schnitger (1700); Destroyed in 1944
1759	Brandenburg on the Havel	St. Peter and Paul Cathedral		II / P	33	Thorough overhaul of the Great Cathedral Organ (Wagner, 1723); receive

literature

• Christhard Kirchner: The Berlin organ builder Peter Migendt (1703–1767). In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins 86, 1990, pp. 295–311.
• Christhard Kirchner: Johann Peter Migendt . In: Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. S. 373f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolf Bergelt : Wagner spirit in the organ building of the students. Volume 2. Szczecin - St. Nikolai. Berlin 2014. pp. 101-103 , also the place where Peter Migend lived and worked, Institute for Organ Research Brandenburg, research