Rieger-Kloss

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Rieger-Kloss company premises in Krnov

Rieger-Kloss was an organ building company in Krnov in the Czech Republic from 1947 to 2015. It manufactured more than 600 organs in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, the USA and other countries. It is to be distinguished from the company Rieger Orgelbau in Austria.

history

It goes back to the organ building company Gebrüder Rieger , which was founded in 1845 by Franz Rieger in what was then Jägerndorf in Austrian Silesia. This was expropriated in Czechoslovakia in 1945 and established itself in 1946 as Rieger Orgelbau in Schwarzach, Austria .

In 1947 a state organ building company was founded at the old location in Krnov, which was merged in 1948 with the small workshop of Josef Kloss, the former technical director of the Rieger brothers . In 1950 an extra company for piano construction was outsourced.

In the early years, production was almost exclusively for the local market. There were hardly any qualified employees and only instruments with a cone chests and pneumatic action could be manufactured. After appearing at the world exhibition Expo 58 , numerous instruments were delivered to the Soviet Union, up to 1991 there were 57. Since the 1960s, organs with slide chests and mechanical action have gradually been developed.

After the political change, instruments were also delivered to China, Japan, Korea, the USA, Austria and other countries. In 1992 an organ building school was set up and in 1994 the company was privatized. In 1997 a flood severely damaged the production facilities. In 2015 the organ building company Rieger-Kloss had to file for bankruptcy.

Hermann Kloss , the son of Josef Kloss, founded his own organ building company in Kelheim in 1968 .

List of works (selection)

The Rieger-Kloss company manufactured more than 600 organs and carried out numerous repairs and other work. The opus number begins with 3018 (according to the old Rieger count).

New organs (selection)

year place building image Manuals register opus Remarks
1947 Bystřice II / P 29
1950 Šaštínske Stráže , Slovakia Basilica of the Seven Sorrows of Mary
Šaštín bazilika 41.jpg
 V / P 86 around 5,500 pipes, in the prospectus from 1771
1952 Papradno , Slovakia St. Andrew III / P 38 3139 extended to III / P, 52, 2011 restoration
1955 Anttola , Finland Anttolan Kirkko II / P 16
1956 Bratislava Philharmonic IV / P 84 replaced
1956 Espoo , Finland Leppävaaran Kirkko II / P 10 replaced
1957 Joensuu , Finland The teacher's production facility II / P 10 scrapped
1959 Moscow Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky Hall IV / P 81
1961 Olomouc St. Moritz V / P 94
1962 Minsk , Belarus Philharmonic IV / P 73
1967 Toronto , Canada III / P 35
1969 Yerevan , Armenia Philharmonic IV / P 62
1970s Prague Dvořak Hall IV / P 61 around 5,050 pipes, prospectus from 1885
1972 Ústí nad Labem Smetana Hall III / P 47
1974 Cheb Fine Arts Gallery III / P 57
1979 Bratislava Broadcasting concert hall IV / P 81
1980, 2000 Ostrava Philharmonic IV / P 66 originally in the Palace of Culture Prague (V / P, 80), reduced in size in 2000
1981 Tallinn , Estonia St. Nikolai IV / P 63 4,711 pipes
1985 Volgograd Philharmonic Central Concert Hall in Volgograd. Pipe organ 001.jpg IV / P 65
1987 Almaty , Kazakhstan Philharmonic IV / P 73 2017 by Schuke work
1989 Beijing Concert Hall III / P 60 first new organ in the People's Republic of China
1995 Guangzhou , China Xinghai Concert Hall IV / P 82
1995 Seoul , Korea Methodist Church III / P 54

literature

  • Wolfram Hackel, Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 2. Saxony and the surrounding area. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2012. P. 310f.

Web links

Commons : Rieger-Kloss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Organs

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rieger-Kloss Info Krnov (German)
  2. ↑ Šaštín, organ Youtube
  3. ↑ Organ Parish Papradno, with disposition (Slovak)