Stephan Cuntz

Restored Cuntz positive in the Minorite Church in Regensburg

Stephan Cuntz (* around 1565 in Passau ; † after November 9, 1629 in Nuremberg ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Stephan Cuntz was the son of the organ maker Jörg Cuntz (mann). After a school education and a carpenter's apprenticeship , which he completed around 1585, he began an organ and instrument maker apprenticeship , presumably with Lorenz Hauslaib in Nuremberg. It was not until 1595 that his instruments can be proven.

In 1598 he received Nuremberg citizenship . On April 28, 1600, he married Barbara Koch. The marriage resulted in four children: Georg (* March 9, 1601), Ursula (* December 21, 1605), Juliane (* August 12, 1614) and Margareta (* August 12, 1616). On October 21, 1611 he was appointed city organ maker, succeeding Peter Grünewald.

In 1620 Cuntz traveled through Europe for four years, working in Antwerp and almost certainly also with his brothers in Cracow . He returned to Nuremberg in 1624 with his nephew Matthaes. He died there and was buried on November 9, 1629 in the St. Rochus cemetery . Cuntz built instruments in Middle Franconia and the Coburg area. His best known student was his colleague Nicolaus Manderscheidt .

A portrait of Cuntz can be found on a lid of a spinet preserved in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg , which he expanded into a claviorganum.

plant

Of the numerous works by Stephan Cuntz, only a few positive ones have survived: He was entirely in the tradition of positive construction, for which the city of Nuremberg was known at that time.

• 1598: Metropolitan Museum, New York: Organ work in Claviorganum by Lorenz Hauslaib
• around 1599: Nonnberg Abbey , Salzburg
• around 1610: St. Georg , Dinkelsbühl (→ organ)
• around 1610: Frauenkirche , Nuremberg , in the Museum for Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig ; Work with Nicolaus Manderscheidt .
• around 1610: Museum of Musical Instruments Berlin
• 1627: Regensburg Historical Museum (Minorite Church), built for a Nuremberg patrician house; oldest surviving organ in the Upper Palatinate. (→ organ)

literature

• Eberhard Kraus: Historic organs in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell & Steiner 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1 , pp. 76 and 262 f.
• Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of the south German organ builder. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 57.
• Konrad Dänhardt; in: I want to praise the Lord always - commemorative publication on the occasion of the restoration of the Cuntz organ from 1627. City of Regensburg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-943222-21-0 .
• Hermann Fischer, Hans-Wolfgang Theobald and Theodor Wohnhaas; in: The positive of St. Georg in Dinkelsbühl. In: Musik in Bayern , No. 38, 1989, pp. 33–73.
• Cuntz (Kuntsch), Stephan in: Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. de Gruyter, 2007, p. 236. ( Google Books )

Web links

• Stephan Cuntz in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ image section with Cuntz on the right edge of the image (download)
2. ↑ Spinettdeckel of Lucas Friedrich Behaim. In: Object catalog of the GNM collections, accessed on June 23, 2016.
3. ^ Instrument portrait on the Metropolitan Museum website, accessed June 23, 2016.
4. ^ Positiv - Museum for Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig - Inv. No. 243. From : Musical Instrument Museums Online , accessed June 23, 2016.
5. ↑ Hans Scherrer: The Cuntz organ is being completely renovated in Bautzen. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung , December 5, 2013, accessed on June 23, 2016.
6. ↑ Davina Lang: Cuntz organ enchants the Minorite Church. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung , June 8, 2015, accessed on June 23, 2016.