Schmeisser (organ builder)

Wilhelm Eduard Schmeisser

Alfred Schmeisser

Schmeisser is the family name of a family of organ builders who had their headquarters in Rochlitz ( Saxony ).

history

Wilhelm Eduard Schmeisser (* 1817 in Glauchau , † 1882 in Rochlitz) learned organ building from Johann Andreas Hesse . In 1844 he went into business for himself in Rochlitz and founded the family business. By 1878 he had built 30 organs with mechanical action and sliding drawers. His son Paul Schmeisser (* 1850 in Rochlitz; † 1902 ibid.) Continued the business in 1878 until his death. From 1895 to 1901 pneumatic wind chests were built in addition to mechanical slider chests, and from 1901 pneumatic wind chests based on the design of Ernst Seifert . In the third generation, Alfred Schmeisser (* 1878 in Rochlitz; † October 24, 1957 ibid.) Took over the company in 1902, which switched production to pneumatic cone shutters in 1905. From the 1930s onwards, Schmeisser restored historic organs. In the case of new buildings, high aliquot registers were used in accordance with the neo-baroque taste . In 1944, the first organ with a slide door was reintroduced. After the Second World War, Alfred handed over management of the company to his son Reinhard Schmeisser (born April 3, 1909 in Rochlitz; † September 13, 1978 ibid.). He learned organ building from Aug. Laukhuff and from Goebel in Danzig and from 1957 mainly created positives in the GDR . Due to the early death of his daughter Elke (* December 1, 1939; † 1962/1963), who had learned from Walcker , Reinhard had no successor. With Reinhard Schmeisser's retirement in 1975, the company went out.

Works (selection)

The Roman number indicates the number of manuals, a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal and the Arabic number in the penultimate column indicates the number of sounding registers.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1846	Burgstädt			II / P	30th	Wilhelm Eduard Schmeisser
1862	Rochlitz	St. Kunigunde		II / P	29	Wilhelm Eduard Schmeisser
1876-1877	Colditz	St. Egidien		II / P	22nd	Wilhelm Eduard Schmeisser
1884	Langenbernsdorf	St. Catherine's		II / P	15th	Paul Schmeisser
1886	Thurm (Mülsen)	St. Urban		II / P	20th	Paul Schmeisser
1890	Calbitz	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	18th	Paul Schmeisser
1894	Rochlitz	St. Petri		II / P	23	Paul Schmeisser
1904	Niederwürschnitz	St. John		II / P	27	Alfred Schmeisser
1904	Leipzig	Rückmarsdorf Church		II / P	21st	Alfred Schmeisser; 1980 changed
1905	Reinholdshain	Village church		II / P	14th	Alfred Schmeisser; removed around 1983.
1906	Leipzig	Church of Galilee		II / P	18th	Alfred Schmeisser; 1962 rearranged by Reinhard Schmeisser
1907	Lauterbach (Marienberg)	Heilandskirche		II / P	24	Alfred Schmeisser
1912	Meinersdorf (Burkhardtsdorf)	Marienkirche		II / P	18th	Alfred Schmeisser
1912	Gornsdorf	Parish church				Alfred Schmeisser, behind the prospectus by Christian Gottlob Steinmüller (1820)
1914-1915	Grossolbersdorf	Grossolbersdorf Church		II / P	24	Alfred Schmeisser, in the case by Christian Friedrich Göthel (1871); New building by Georg Wünning (2001)
around 1920	Witzschdorf	Martin Luther Church				Alfred Schmeisser
1920	Rochlitz	St. Kunigunde		III / P	50	Alfred Schmeisser
1920-1923	Hallbach (Olbernhau)	St. Peter and Paul			12	Alfred Schmeisser, partly in the prospectus of the predecessor organ by Erler (1867)
1924	Engelsdorf (Leipzig)	St. Pankratius Church Engelsdorf		II / P	12	Alfred Schmeisser, pneumatic cone drawer
1926	Geringswalde	Martin Luther Church		III / P	50	Alfred Schmeisser
1927	Leipzig	Immanuel Church		II / P	16	Alfred Schmeisser, including some pipes from the previous organ by Johann Gottlob Mende
1927	Leipzig- Probstheida	Immanuel Church		II / P		Alfred Schmeisser
1928	Niederzwönitz	St. Johannis				Alfred Schmeisser
1929	Krumhermersdorf	Parish church		II / P	14th	Alfred Schmeisser
1930	Rochsburg	Village church
1931	Beucha	Beucha mountain church		II / P	19th	Alfred Schmeisser built the Kreutz Bach organ from 1863, previously in the Martin Luther Church in Markkleeberg-Gautzsch rang
1934	Pöhla	Luther Church				Alfred Schmeisser
1935	Chemnitz	St. Nikolai		III / P	54	Alfred Schmeisser
1941-1943	Leipzig	Miltitz Church		II / P	15th	Alfred Schmeisser, new building in the housing by Friedrich August Eckhardt (1846)
1951	Thum	St. Anne's Church		II / P	24	Reinhard Schmeisser, with parts of the previous organ from Kreutzbach (1895)
1953	Mildenau	Parish church		II / P	28	Reinhard Schmeisser
1952-1954	Leipzig- True	Dominican Monastery of St. Albert		II / P	19th	Reinhard Schmeisser, pneumatic cone chest
1960	Ohrdruf	St. Michaelis parish hall, Kirchstrasse 20		5 / I
1970	Hohndorf (Großolbersdorf)	chapel				Reinhard Schmeisser

literature

• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 296 .
• Uwe Pape , Wolfram Hackel (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 2: Saxony and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-921140-92-5 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 257-259 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders. 1991, p. 296.
2. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, p. 258.
3. ^ Rolf Scheurer: The village church of Reinholdshain. In: Historical sacred buildings in Glauchau. Series of publications by the Denkmalverein e. V. Glauchau, Glauchau 2007, p. 12.
4. ^ Website of the parish of Lunzenau