Pius Furtwangler

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Pius Friedrich Philipp Furtwängler (born July 17, 1841 in Elze , † January 16, 1910 in Hanover ) was a German organ builder .

Life

family

Pius Furtwängler came from a family of farmers from the Black Forest that has been documented in the Black Forest since the 14th century .

He was the son of the organ builder and clockmaker Philipp Furtwängler and the brother of Wilhelm Furtwängler, who was also an organ builder (born June 5, 1829 in Elze; † September 4, 1883 ibid).

Career

Pius Furtwängler, born in Elze at the beginning of industrialization in the Kingdom of Hanover , took over together with his brother Wilhelm after the death of their father in 1867 the workshop for tower clocks and organ building founded there around three decades earlier in 1838 .

In 1883, during the founding of the German Empire , Pius' brother Wilhelm died. In the face of a lack of biological heirs, Pius Furtwängler took the younger organ builder Adolf Hammer (born April 6, 1854 in Herzberg am Harz ; † March 5, 1921 in Hanover) into the company, although the relocation of the company to Hanover was a condition for his partnership made. The workshop, which had meanwhile become known nationwide, was relocated to Hanover and then traded there as P. Furtwängler & Hammer - Hanover , more simply called Furtwängler & Hammer .

In the 19th century, the company moved one after the other to its premises, first at Engelbosteler Damm 80 in Hanover's Nordstadt , then at Grenzweg 1 in Vahrenwald, and then moved to Celler Straße 65 on the old Poststraße to Celle , which is now the Hanoverian districts of Mitte , Oststadt and List connects.

As probably the most famous organ building company of the 19th century in Hanover, the company P. Furtwängler & Hammer - Hanover was one of six companies listed as organ builders according to the address book of the city of Hanover from 1900.

In 1904, the trained organ builder and nephew of Adolf Hammers, Emil Hammer, initially joined the company as authorized signatory , which became known as Emil Hammer Orgelbau from 1937 onwards .

literature

  • Riemann Musiklexikon , p. 565f.
  • The music in past and present , paperback edition MGG Prisma , Vol. 5 (1989), column 1421f.
  • 150 years of Emil Hammer organ building. Festschrift. Ed .: Emil Hammer Orgelbau. Emil Hammer organ building, Hemmingen 1988.
  • Uwe Pape , Georg Schloetmann (Eds.): 175 years of Emil Hammer organ building: two thousand organs from seven generations. With a greeting from Martin Balz. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-921140-91-8 ; contents

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Notwithstanding this, the date of birth is given as July 14, 1841; compare Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel: The Organ. An Encyclopedia (= Encyclopedia of keyboard instruments ). Routledge, New York, NY [et al. a.] 2006, ISBN 0-41594174-1 , p. 238; online through google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Furtwängler, Pius Friedrich Philipp. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 124; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b Georg Lippold : Furtwängler. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 5 (1961), p. 738; online edition as a German biography
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ludwig Hoerner : Organ builder. In: ders .: agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900. Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank . Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , p. 355.
  4. ↑ Riemann Musiklexikon , p. 565f.
  5. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Engelbosteler Damm. In: ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 72.
  6. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: Grenzweg. In: ders .: The street names ... , p. 97.
  7. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Celler Strasse. In: ders .: The street names ... , p. 54.
  8. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Hammer, (2) Emil. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 149.
personal data
SURNAME Furtwängler, Pius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Furtwängler, Pius Friedrich Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Elze
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1910
Place of death Hanover