Reinalt Johannes Klein

Reinalt Johannes Klein (born December 22, 1958 in Konstanz ) is a German organ builder .

life and work

Reinalt Klein grew up in a musical family and taught himself to play the piano and organ. He learned organ building from 1978 to 1982 at Mönch & Prachtel (Überlingen), where he worked with Claude Jaccard and thus got to know French organ building. He spent his time as a journeyman in 1982 with Mönch & Prachtel and 1983 with Claude Jaccard in France and 1984/1985 with Gebr. Späth Orgelbau and 1985–1988 with Harald Rapp in Ennetach. From 1988 to 1992 he studied musicology at the Free University of Berlin . Since 1993 he has worked as a freelance organ builder for Bartelt Immer (North) and Uwe Knaak (Berlin). His masterpiece in 1994 was the replica of the Louis Alexandre Clicquot organ (1734) in the Stapelmoorer church . A year later he passed the master's examination. Until 1998 he was still involved in various projects as a freelancer, especially in the area of ​​historically oriented construction and intonation . In addition to organ building and restoration, he immersed himself in project processes and team leadership.

In May 1998 he opened his own workshop in Leipzig, where he concentrated on historical keyboard instruments. From 1999 to 2001, Klein was the technical project manager of the Göteborg Organ Art Center for the construction of the north German baroque organ in Örgryte, Sweden , and ran the metal pipe workshop together with Munetaka Yokota. He also worked on the intonation. At the end of 2008, Klein moved into the Stockelsdorf church near Lübeck, into which he built an organ workshop. From 2007 to 2011 he worked with Amadeus Junker (Meinersen) in the field of historical metal pipe construction.

The metal pipes are manufactured by Klein based on historical models, the organ metal is poured onto sand or clay and planed by hand, and everything is produced in-house without any supplies. Only mechanical come tracker action used. Klein examined the historical pipe inventory of the organ in Kappeln and compared the lengths and inscriptions with the Scherer organ from St. Nicolai in Mölln . The findings showed that eight registers come wholly or partly from the 16th century by Jacob Scherer and his son-in-law Dirk Hoyer. For stylistic reasons, these Renaissance pipes from Kappeln were not integrated as originally intended, as Klein's largest new building was based on the late Baroque sound of the 18th century.

List of works

The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for an independent pedal, a lowercase “p” for an attached pedal.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1987	Lübeck	Privately owned by RJ Klein		I.	3	Procession organ
1993	Veenhusen	Veenhuser Church		I / p	8th	together with Bartelt Immer and Uwe Knaak restoration of the organ by Johann Gottfried Rohlfs (1801–1802)
1994	Pile bog	Stapelmoorer Church		III / P	23	together with Bartelt Immer and Claude Jaccard replica of the Louis Alexandre Clicquot organ (1734), prospectus from Eike Schulte (1848) received → organ
1999-2000	Gothenburg	Orgryte Nya Kyrka		IV / P	54	Collaboration in building metal pipes and intoning the north German baroque organ by Munetaka Yokota, Mats Arvidsson and Henk van Eeken
2002	Bremen-Walle	Waller Church		II / P	26th	Collaboration in pipe construction and the intonation of the new building by Winold van der Putten , an organ in the North German-Dutch style of the 17th century
2003	Marjoss	Ev. church		I / P	7th	Restoration of the organ by Ratzmann (1887)
2004	Lübeck	Walter House		I / P	9	Restoration of a Kemper salon organ (around 1935)
2005	Pellworm	Old church		II / P	24	Overhaul of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1710–1711) → Organ of the Old Church (Pellworm)
2006	Berlin-Spandau	Jeremiah Church		II / P	16	Renovation of the Walcker organ (1966)
2006	Lübeck	Jakobikirche (small organ)		III / P	31	Cleaning and re-toning the organ by Friedrich Stellwagen (1637) → Organ
2006	Schleswig	Ansgar Church		II / P	18th	Renovation of the organ by Rieger (1991)
2007	Struxdorf	St. George's Church		I / P	9	Renovation of the organ by Marcussen & Søn (1876)
2007-2008	Weener	Organeum		I.	5	Restoration of the cabinet organ by Ibe Peters Iben (1790)
2008	Celle	reformed Church		II / P	14th	Restoration of the organ by Christian Vater (1744) / Eduard Meyer (1849)
2009	Sülfeld	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	14th	Rehabilitation of the Kemper organ (1970)
2009	Albersdorf (Holstein)	St. Remigius		II / P	21st	Renovation of the organ by Marcussen & Søn (1891) / Kemper (1966)
2009	Glückstadt	City Church Glückstadt		III / P	30th	Rehabilitation of the Kemper organ (1962)
2009	Schönkirchen	Marienkirche		II / P	23	Renovation of the organ by Detlef Kleuker (1968)
2010	Behlendorf	Behlendorf village church		I / p	7th	Refurbishment of the organ by Johann Friedrich Schulze (1868)
2010	Lübeck	Johanneum in Lübeck		II / p	15th	New building, 4 pedal registers from the main factory with alternating loops
2010	Great Grönau	St. Willehad		II / P	18th	Renovation and re-intonation of the organ by Klaus Becker (1968) behind the 1689 prospectus
2011–2012	Petersdorf on Fehmarn	St. John's Church		III / P	30th	Renovation and re-intonation of the organ by Marcussen & Søn (1858) / Neuthor (1976)
2012	Gundorf	Gundorf Church		II / P	13	Refurbishment of the Kohl organ (1873)
2012	Lübeck	Jakobikirche		II / P	15th	Renovation of Hugo Distler's house organ by Paul Ott (1938)
2013	Braunschweig	Brothers Church		I.	6th	Refurbishment of the cabinet organ by Ibe Peters Iben (1789)
2011-2014	Kappeln	St. Nikolai		II / P	40	New building behind the prospectus from 1793, including 4 registers from the 18th century; 8 registers by Jacob Scherer and his son-in-law Dirk Hoyer were not used
2014	List on Sylt	St. Jürgen		II / P	15th	Refurbishment of the organ by Dieter Bensmann (2001-2002)
2014	Herrnburg	Herrnburg village church		II / P	10	Restoration of the organ by Friedrich Albert Mehmel (1884)
2014	Lübeck	St. Stephanus (Karlshof)		II / P	17th	Refurbishment of the organ by W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt (Oder) (1968)
2014-2015	Ruchow	Ruchow village church		I / p	7th	Restoration of the organ by Heinrich Schmidt (1796), which expanded the work of Joachim Richborn (1684), organ consecration on June 4, 2016.
2015	Borgholzhausen	Protestant church		II / P	17th	Refurbishment and re-intonation of the organ by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau behind the prospectus by Hans Henrich Reinking (1653)
2015	Lübeck	Privately owned		I.	2	Restoration of the organ by an unknown organ builder (around 1960)
2015	Lübeck	Luther Church		II / P	22nd	Refurbishment and re-intonation of the principal registers and mixtures, the sesquialtera and the reeds of the organ by EF Walcker & Cie. (1986/1990)
2014-2016	Wallenbrück	Marienkirche		II / P	20th	After Wegscheider removed and stored the 5 registers from the period before 1650 , the baroque case on the west gallery remained empty; Klein built the remaining modern inventory of 15 registers including the outdated and adapted technical work by Gustav Steinmann Orgelbau (1976) in a new housing, which was built on the ground floor in the north aisle and protrudes into the gallery, and added the missing five registers in historical construction.
2016	Lübeck	St. Andreas (Schlutup)		II / P	21st	Refurbishment of the organ by P. Bruhn & Søn (1989)
2016-2017	Tall beasts	Village church Hohen Viecheln		II / P	13	Restoration of the organ by Friedrich Wilhelm Winzer (1859)
2017	Large voltage	Protestant church		II / P	11	New building, 4 pedal registers from the main factory with alternating loops
2018	Ostenfeld (Husum)	Village church		I / p	10	Restoration of the organ by Boye Lorentzen (1776), which was reconstructed in 1995 by Lothar E. Banzhaf
2018-2019	Boizenburg / Elbe	City Church of St. Mary		II / P	19th	Restoration of the organ by Friedrich Friese III (1892)
2019-2020	Rabenkirchen-Faulück	St. Mary's Church		I / P	14th	Restoration of the historical pipework and voicing of the organ by an unknown organ builder (1697)
2020	Klütz	Marienkirche		II / P	20th	Restoration of the organ by Friedrich Wilhelm Winzer (1871)

Fonts

• “About pipes and paws”: An “operating manual” for the French organ at Stapelmoor . 2nd Edition. Artline, Wymeer 2005.
• Historical findings and pipe documentation - methods of investigation and conclusions on handling. In: Dirk Jonkanski, Heiko Seidel: Organ landscape Schleswig-Holstein. For the history and maintenance of a sound and art monument . Ludwig, Kiel 2012, ISBN 978-3-86935-141-4 , pp. 104-114 .

Web links

• Reinalt Klein's homepage (under construction)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klein: "About pipes and paws". 2005, p. 19.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dirk Jonkanski, Heiko Seidel: Organ landscape Schleswig-Holstein. For the history and maintenance of a sound and art monument . Ludwig, Kiel 2012, ISBN 978-3-86935-141-4 , pp. 285 .
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher of December 31, 2011: The fast organ builder from St. Nikolai. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
4. ↑ http://musikinstrumenten-bauer.de : Reinalt Klein Orgelbaumeister , accessed on May 9, 2019.
5. ↑ Schlei-Bote from October 25, 2014: The secret of the old organ. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
6. ^ Organ in Stapelmoor , accessed on May 9, 2019.
7. ^ Daniela Staiger-Ortgies: The concept of the Waller organ. P. 4, accessed on May 9, 2019 (PDF file; 228 kB).
8. ^ Organ in the Organeum (Weener) , accessed on May 9, 2019.
9. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum: Ruchow, Protestant village church , accessed on May 9, 2019.
10. ^ Rüdiger Rump: Ruchow through organs internationally. In: SVZ Schwerin, Anzeiger für Sternberg, Brüel, Warin from June 6, 2016, accessed on May 9, 2019.
11. ^ Organ in Wallenbrück , accessed on May 9, 2019.
12. ^ Organ in Großsolt , accessed on May 9, 2019.
13. ^ Jacqueline Worch: Boizenburg: Beauty cure for the Friese organ. In: svz.de. July 18, 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2019.