Organ builder Pirchner

Organ builder Pirchner
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1825
Seat	Steinach am Brenner, Austria
management	Martin Pirchner
Branch	Organ building
Website	www.orgelbau-pirchner.com

Orgelbau Pirchner is an Austrian organ building company based in Steinach am Brenner in Tyrol .

Company history

The production of organs in the Wipptal can be traced back to 1817. Today's Orgelbau Pirchner company was founded by Josef Reinisch I , who moved his workshop from Gries am Brenner to Steinach in 1825 .

A total of five generations of the Reinisch family were active as organ builders until 1935 Johann Pirchner, who had worked as an organ builder in the company since 1918, took over the management of the workshop. From then on, the company appeared under the name Reinisch-Pirchner . Due to the Second World War , the company was closed from the end of 1942 to June 1945.

From 1948 onwards, mechanical slider chest organs were built again, after instruments with pneumatic and electric action were made between 1898 and 1942 . From 1945, under Johann Pirchner's direction, more than 120 organs were built until he handed over the business to his son, who was also called Johann, in 1972.

In 1998 the company name (company) was changed to Orgelbau Pirchner . Since 2003, Martin Pirchner, son of Johann Pirchner jun. (* April 28, 1928; † December 11, 2012), the company together with his son Andreas.

Works

P = pedal keyboard

opus	year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
	1894	innsbruck	Wilten basilica		II / P	24	built by Franz Reinisch II (1840–1921); mechanical cone chests with Barker lever for the main plant; Restored in 2003
	1896	Rauris	Bucheben: parish church to the hll. Hieronymus and Leonhard		I / P	7th	The organ was built by Franz Reinisch II. (1840–1921) from Steinach am Brenner as a mechanical cone chest instrument, outwardly in the neo-renaissance style.
	1948	Absam	Michaelskirche		II / P	23	Restored under the guidance of the Federal Monuments Office's consultant , the organologist Ing. Egon Krauss . → Johann Anton Fuchs organ | -
	1950	Vienna	Maltese Church		II / P	16	New building including baroque housing and Pipe material from the original baroque organ from around 1750 (I / P / 8, unknown organ builder). The range has been expanded.
	1956	Waldhausen im Strudengau	Collegiate church				Prospectus 1677, work restored in 1956
	1957	Bludenz	Bings Parish Church
	1958	Vienna	Sandleiten parish church		II / P	14th	Originally one of the organs of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , where Anton Heiller taught, transferred to the Sandleiten parish church in 2002.
	1959	St. Polten	Evangelical parish church of St. Pölten		II / P	14th	Expanded in 2014 by Walter Vonbank Orgelbau
	1969	Ried im Innkreis	Riedberg parish church			19th
	1976	Kirchberg an der Pielach	Parish church
	1976	Pfons	Parish Church of the Assumption				The main body of the organ is from the 1st quarter of the 19th century, the movement with a new Rückpositiv is from 1976.
	1978	Kaltern	Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary		III / P	31
	1978	Eberschwang	Parish church hl. Michael		II / P	19th	Using the Rococo case from 1794. Organ disposition: [1]
	1980	Brixen	Brixner Dom		III / P	47
	1983	Obermillstatt	Parish church		II / P	14th
	1985	Perchtoldsdorf	Parish church		III / P	40
	1989	Seitenstetten	Seitenstetten Abbey		II / P	29
	1991	Salzburg	Salzburg Cathedral		II / P	14th	→ eastern dome organs
	1991	St. Georgen im Attergau	Parish church hl. George		II / P	21st	In a case that is stylistically matched to the pulpit and manufactured by the Aichlseder company.
	1995	Bolzano	Franciscan monastery		III / P	44
	1999	Hall in Tirol	City parish church of St. Nicholas		III / P	50
	2000	innsbruck	St. Jacob's Cathedral		III / P	57	The large organ on the west gallery was built into the case of the organ by Johann Kaspar Humpel from 1725 using pipe material from the previous organ. The instrument has mechanical playing and stop action.
	2002	Boheimkirchen	Parish church Böheimkirchen		III / P	31
	2002	Vienna	University of Music and Performing Arts Teaching and exercise organ in the institute building Seilerstätte 26, room AO106		II / P	15th
	2004	Polling	Former monastery church		III / P	42	Brochure by Johann Georg Hörtich from 1765
	2007	Sandl	Parish church		II / P	19th	The new instrument was blessed on June 10, 2007 by Maximilian Aichern .
	2008	Reichenthal	Reichenthal parish church		II / P	25th	Franz Xaver Krismann created the organ in 1774 for the parish church of Steyr . In 1893, on the recommendation of Anton Bruckner , the case was separated from the instrument and brought from Steyr to Reichenthal.
	2009	Lienz	Franciscan monastery Lienz		III / P	38
	2010	Ortisei in Val Gardena	Parish church		II / P	31
	2011	Traunstein	City parish church St. Oswald		I / P	9	Choir organ
	2012	Seewalchen am Attersee	Parish Church of St. James the Elder		II / P	26th	Set up in 2012 and consecrated on June 16, 2013.
	2013	Advance	Vorau Abbey		II / P	34
	2015	Weitra	Weitra parish church

Web links

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

• Homepage of the Pirchner company
• Organ landscape Tyrol Franz Reinisch II.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Orgelbau Pirchner: History. Retrieved August 18, 2013 . 
2. ↑ stift-wilten.at
3. ↑ orgelbau-pirchner.com
4. ^ Günter LADE: Organs in Vienna. Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-9500017-0-0 , pp. 54f.
5. ↑ Lt. Church leader, Parish Office St. Georgen 2002
6. ↑ Reinhard Jaud: 275 years of organ history at St. Jakob in Innsbruck . In: Domorgel St. Jakob / Innsbruck , Festschrift zur Orgelweihe, Innsbruck 2000, p. 26ff.
7. ↑ Gottfried Allmer: Large organs in Austria - an overview. In: The Organ Forum. No. 13, 2010, p. 88.
8. ↑ erzbistum-muenchen.de ( Memento from February 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ Orgelbau Pirchner: The organ in the parish church Seewalchen am Attersee ; accessed on July 23, 2018