Peter Titz

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Peter Titz (born January 23, 1823 in Rokytnice ( Rokitnitz ), a district of Hrubá Skála (Groß Skal) ; † February 6, 1873 in Vienna ) was a Viennese organ builder .

Life

In the first half of the 19th century, the Viennese instrument maker Jacob Deutschmann further developed the physharmonica (a forerunner of the harmonium) invented by Anton Haeckl in 1818 . The instrument became easier to play and its pitch range larger. With increasing versatility, the popularity of the instruments also grew. Peter Titz is documented for the first time in 1851 as Jacob Deutschmann's assistant repairing the organ in the Church of St. Mauritz in Kroměříž (Kremsier) . Nothing is known about his youth or education. In 1852 he apparently started his own business for a short time, but took over his workshop in Margarethengasse in Vienna-Margareten a year later after Jacob Deutschmann's death and began to manufacture organs and harmoniums there under his name . The important Hungarian organ builder József Angster learned his trade in this company between 1859 and 1863. Since 1868 at the latest, Titz's company has been allowed to adorn itself with the title of kuk court purveyor.

After the death of Peter Titz in 1873, his wife Anastasia (* 1815, † 1888) ran the successful business for a few years. In 1878 this was taken over by Teofil Kotykiewicz (* April 27, 1849, † February 19, 1920), who also married Theresia Titz (* 1858, † 1934), the younger daughter of Peter and Anastasia Titz, in 1879. Their older daughter Elise (* 1854, † 1912) had married Carl Hesse jun., Son of the organ builder Carl Hesse , in 1867 . Kotykiewicz, the son of Polish immigrants, changed the name of the company to Harmoniumfabrik Kotykiewicz , but built on the good reputation of Titz's company with the addition "P. Titz. Descendant", which often appears in advertisements. The company has not built its own organs since then, although organ registers have been integrated into some of their most expensive pressure wind harmoniums.

List of works (selection)

At least the seven organs listed here are associated with Titz's name, four of which have survived. He had also submitted drafts for new organs in the Vienna Hofburg Chapel and the Vienna Court Opera, but was not given a chance. A harmonium by Peter Titz is in the collection of the Technisches Museum Wien , one of his physharmonics is said to be in the collection of old musical instruments in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien , and another harmonium in the Smidt Múzeum in Szombathely .

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
unknown Écs Parish Church of St. Stephen ( Szent István ) II / P 11 Receive. The only register of the second manual is an 8 'harmonium.
before 1860 Nagycenk Parish Church of St. Stephen ( Szent István ) II / P 20th Originally preserved for the Kärntnertortheater .
1863/64 Inner City (Vienna) Teutonic Order Church I. 9 Repeatedly rebuilt and expanded, today 18 registers.
1863 Nuštar ( Vukovar-Syrmia County ) Parish Church of the Holy Spirit ( Duha Svetoga ) I. 8th Receive
1865 Laab in the forest Parish Church of St. Koloman I. 7th Replaced for the new church, 1927.
1867 Wieden (Vienna) Parish Church of St. Elisabeth II / P 24 Replaced for the rebuilding of the church, 1902.
1869 Rappoltenkirchen Parish Church of St. George I. 8th Receive.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Christian Fastl: Titz, Peter. In: Austrian Music Lexicon online. Institute for Art and Music History Research, 2002, accessed on October 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ Gellerman, Robert F .: The American Reed Organ and the Harmonium. Vestal Press, Lanham 1997, ISBN 978-1-4616-9424-3 , pp. 35 f .
  3. ^ Fritz-Hilscher, Elisabeth Th .; Kretschmer, Helmut: Vienna. Music history from prehistory to the present . Lit-Verl, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50368-8 , p. 357 .
  4. ^ Marian Alojz Mayer: József Angster. In: Organs and Organ Builders in Slovakia. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Kaiserthumes Österreich . Verlag der GJ Manz'schen Buchhandlung , Vienna 1866, p. 16 .
  6. ↑ Online database of the Technisches Museum Wien. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ MŰEMLÉKEK: Écs, rk. templom, orgona (Peter Titz) (kép). Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ Szent István Római Katolikus Templom | Nagycenki Kirándulás. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Examples of work carried out on church organs. Organ building Wienerwald, accessed on October 24, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Crkve u župi. August 23, 2010, accessed October 23, 2019 (Croatian).
  11. ↑ Parish Church. Parish of St. Koloman, accessed October 24, 2019 .
  12. ^ History. Parish Sankt Elisabeth, October 16, 2012, accessed on October 24, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ Church leaders | Parish Rappoltenkirchen. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Titz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Viennese organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Rokytnice, Hrubá Skála
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1873
Place of death Vienna