Quirin Weber

Quirin Weber (born December 30, 1693 in Dachau , † February 10, 1751 in Dachau) was a German organ builder .

life and work

Weber was the son of the glazier Martin Weber from Indersdorf . On October 25, 1713, he married Appolonia Dauscher from Munich, who gave birth to two daughters. In 1714 he received citizenship in Dachau.

So far it has not been possible to clarify where Weber received his training as an organ builder. He is known to have built several new organs from 1719 onwards.

A letter of recommendation has been received from Count Carl von und zu Haimhausen, for whom he built an organ for the castle chapel in 1736 : "According to Vorzaiger diss Quirinus Weberburger: And organ maker in Dachau in my castle chapels all here a completely new organ with 8 registers: And aufsezt, that is, I then produced such a work of art that, thanks to the sharp revision made: And the slightest resolution could not have been made by any means through the problem held; ... " .

In 1738 he submitted a cost estimate for a new organ with 24 registers for the Peterskirche in Munich . In the new building, however, the Munich-based Ignaz Philipp Hildebrand came to the fore, who previously defamed him as follows: "... that the Dachau man is not a trained organ maker, but a glazier who handles the organ, where he only attacked organ making after he started the glazing so badly spoiled that he even had to sell a house and tools he had had. "

In fact, however, Weber died as a respected citizen in 1751.

List of works (excerpt)

year	place	building	Manuals	register	Remarks
1720	Freising	Neustift Monastery			Prospectus received. 1760, after a church fire in 1751, new work by Philipp Rädler. Since 1992: Work with II / 33 by Johannes Klais Orgelbau .
1725	Oberammergau	Parish church
1726	Dachau	St. Jacob
1727	Munich	Augustinian Church	I / P	8th
1730	Ettal		I / P	12
1734	Oberalting
1736	Haimhausen	Castle chapel	I / P	8th	1960 Repair (and modification?) By Guido Nenninger . Around 1976 repair by Wilhelm Stöberl . → organ
1738	Großkarolinenfeld	Karolinenkirche	I / P	8th	Originally the choir organ in the Tegernsee Monastery ; Presented to Großkarolinenfeld by Queen Caroline in 1824 . → organ
1747	Weyarn	Monastery church	II / P	20th	1983 renovation by Anton Staller

literature

Georg Brenninger: Organs in Old Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1859-5 .
Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 .

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Fischer and Theodor Wohnhaas : On the history of the organ of St. Peter in Munich . In: Church Music Yearbook . tape 57 , 1973, pp. 79-98 .
^ Georg Brenninger : On the organ history of the city of Freising . In: Church Music Yearbook . tape 61 , 1977, pp. 71 .
^ Sixtus Lampl (ed.): Music and organ works of the Tegernsee monastery . Schloßverlag Valley, Valley 2007, ISBN 3-932055-03-9 , p. 105-109 .

personal data
SURNAME	Weber, Quirin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1693
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dachau
DATE OF DEATH	February 10, 1751
Place of death	Dachau

[1] Hermann Fischer and Theodor Wohnhaas : On the history of the organ of St. Peter in Munich . In: Church Music Yearbook . tape 57 , 1973, pp. 79-98 .

[2] Georg Brenninger : On the organ history of the city of Freising . In: Church Music Yearbook . tape 61 , 1977, pp. 71 .

[3] Sixtus Lampl (ed.): Music and organ works of the Tegernsee monastery . Schloßverlag Valley, Valley 2007, ISBN 3-932055-03-9 , p. 105-109 .