Pflüger organ building

Pflüger organ building
legal form	GmbH
founding	1979
resolution	2015
Seat	Feldkirch, Austria
management	Bernhard and Hans-Jörg Pflüger
Branch	Organ building

Pflüger Orgelbau was an Austrian organ building company based in Feldkirch in Vorarlberg .

history

The Pflüger Orgelbau company was founded in 1979 by Martin Pflüger (* 1941 in Markgröningen / Baden-Württemberg ), a former employee of the Rieger company , in Feldkirch. The first workshop, which housed the metal pipe workshop, was built in 1981 at Sonnengasse 10a, in 1988 the company moved into the newly built facility at Paspelstraße 22. In 1995, the sole proprietorship, which had previously been known as Martin Pflüger Orgelbau, was established together with Martin Pflüger's sons Bernhard, Hans-Jörg and Michael converted into Pflüger Orgelbau GmbH. From 2001 the management was in the hands of Bernhard (* 1969) and Hans-Jörg Pflüger (* 1971). Today Pflüger organs can be found in Austria, Germany , Switzerland , Italy , Japan , Poland , Belarus , Kazakhstan and Slovakia . In 2015 the company was dissolved.

In terms of sound, Martin Pflüger made the synthesis idea of ​​the Alsatian organ reform the determining factor in his workshop. From the pipe-making and intonation methods of Joseph Birgöntzle - the Alsatian emigrant who fled to Vorarlberg before the French Revolution and became active there - Pflüger was able to establish a connection to the Alsatian-French sound aesthetic and in the construction of the organs in Hauptwerk, Rückpositiv and Schwellwerk Albert Realize Schweitzer's vision of a trinity of pianos .

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1983	Latschau	Filial church Latschau		II / P	10
1988	Schruns	Schruns parish church		III / P	41	The front of the case was restored from 1867, the remaining parts of the case reconstructed
1989	Linz	Mary's Conception Cathedral choir organ		II / P	27	Disposition
1991	Feldkirch	Vorarlberg State Conservatory		III / P	38
1992	Bludenz	Holy Cross Church		III / P	44
1993	Graz - Mariatrost	Mariatrost Basilica		III / P	43	Disposition
1994/95	Kellenried, municipality of Berg	St. Erentraud Abbey		II / P	23	Disposition
1996	Mönchdorf	Parish church Mönchdorf
1997	Frauenkirchen	Frauenkirchen Basilica		II / P	33
1997	Windischgarsten	Windischgarsten parish church		II / P	33	Housing parts and two registers were reused from the previous organ.
2001	Hafnerbach	Parish Church of Hafnerbach		II / P	19th
2003	Mariazell	basilica		I / P	9	New building in historical housing, so-called "Konrad organ"
2003	Mariazell	basilica		I.	6th	New building in historical housing, so-called "Marienorgel"
2003	Mistelbach	Parish Church of St. Martin		III / P	40	HW, SW, RP and pedal in new oak housing
2006	Leoben	Parish church Leoben-St. Xaver		II / P	17th	New choir organ, mainly for liturgical use
2009	Leoben	Parish church Leoben-St. Xaver		III / P	36	Symphonic main organ, replacement of a Konrad Hopferwieser's organ from 1899

Web links

Commons : Pflüger Orgelbau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence of Pflüger Orgelbau ( Memento from October 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• Orgelverein: list of works by Orgelbau Pflüger (from page 50)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Roman Summereder : Aufbruch der Klänge. Materials, pictures, documents on organ reform and organ culture in the 20th century. Edition Helbling, Innsbruck 1995, ISBN 3-900590-55-9 , p. 318.
2. ↑ Web presence of Pflüger Orgelbau, company history ( Memento from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Pflüger Orgelbau GmbH in Liqu. , accessed January 13, 2017.
4. ↑ The organs . Website of the Kellenried Abbey. Accessed December 31, 2014.
5. ^ Austrian organ database Karl Schütz. Retrieved June 15, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Austrian Music Lexicon. Retrieved August 27, 2020 . 
7. ↑ [1]
8. ↑ Pflüger organ. Website of the St. Martin Choir, accessed on June 12, 2012 .