Rudolf Kubak

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Rudolf Kubak (born December 16, 1927 in Augsburg ; † May 25, 2008 ) was a German organ builder and founder of the Rudolf Kubak GmbH organ building workshop in Augsburg.

life and work

Magnificat organ in Augsburg Cathedral, 1988

Kubak began his apprenticeship as an organ builder at GF Steinmeyer & Co. in Oettingen , passed his master's examination in 1960 and founded the organ building workshop named after him in Augsburg in 1961. The workshop was taken over by Robert Knöpfler in 1996 and continued under the old name.

Kubak's works include 100 new buildings and a large number of restorations both in Germany and abroad. In Augsburg in particular, several new organs were built by Kubak. Kubak only built organs with slide chests and mechanical action . Stylistically, he tied in with the historical organ building in Swabia and shaped it with restored and new works: "As a restorer, he was just as much a pacemaker as with his new buildings at an early stage of an artistically independent Swabian organ culture of the present."

His largest organ (op. 84) is the organ in the St. Antonius Church in Pforzheim - Brötzingen, completed in 1987, with 46 stops on 3 manuals and pedal. In 1986 he restored the organ in the east choir built by Franz Borgias Maerz in 1903/1904 in Augsburg Cathedral , and in 1988/1989 Kubak's " Magnificat organ " was built in the outer north aisle .

The organ in the Stockach Loreto Chapel, built by Johann Christopherus Pfleger in 1661, was restored and recast by Kubak from 1961 to 1963 and cleaned by his workshop in 1984. He also restored the organ by Georg Friedrich Schmahl from 1737, which is now in St. Andreas Augsburg-Herrenbach, in 1967/1968 .

His last works before the company was handed over (from opus 101) to Robert Knöpfler include those in the Catholic parish church of St. Franziskus in Augsburg-Firnhaberau and in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Munich-Feldmoching as well as at St. Margareta in Ampfing .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fischer, Wohnhaas: Lexicon of south German organ builders. 1994, p. 219.
  2. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders . 1991, p. 237.
  3. ^ Denis André Chevalley: The cathedral at Augsburg. Series Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern. Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-55960-5 . P. 268 f.
  4. ↑ Stockach, Loretokapelle - On the restoration of the organ by Johann Christophorus Pfleger, Radolfzell 1661. Retrieved on May 23, 2013 from the website of Orgelbau Klais .
  5. ↑ Our organ is a Schmahl organ ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). On the website of the Evang.-luth. Parish of St. Andreas Augsburg-Herrenbach.
  6. ^ Augsburg, St. Andreas. At the Greifenberg Institute for Musical Instrument Research, accessed on May 23, 2013.
  7. ^ Organ portrait on the parish website, accessed on May 23, 2013.
  8. ↑ Church leaders on the website of the cath. Parish ( Memento from June 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Disposition see parish church “St. Margaretha “Ampfing in the Church Leader of the Parish Association Ampfing ( memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 3 (PDF; 102 kB).
  10. ↑ Opus 96, 97 and 100 in the catalog raisonné, accessed from Orgelbau Kubak on May 23, 2013.
  11. ↑ Reviews (PDF file, 369 kB.) On the label's website, accessed on May 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kubak, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2008