Timotheus Compenius

Timotheus Compenius (* around 1550, † around 1608) was a German organist and organ builder .

Life

Timotheus Compenius was born as the son of the organ builder Heinrich Compenius the Elder and brother of the famous Esaias Compenius the Elder . In older literature he is referred to as Heinrich's brother, but his ancestry has now been proven. In 1585 he became organist in Staffelstein and married there. Since his collaboration in building his father's new organ in Fritzlar (1588), he has worked as an organ builder. In 1597/1598 he had to give up his position as a Protestant church musician in the course of the Counter-Reformation in Staffelstein and moved to Königsberg in Bavaria , where he is proven until 1608.

Like his brother Esaias, Timothy preferred the sliding ark over the spring ark. In 1597 he wrote the text Local Specification and Listings for the Contraction of the Various Registers , a guide to registration.

Proven works

year	place	church	Manuals	register	Remarks
1588-1590	Fritzlar	Fritzlar Cathedral	II / P	27	Working with his father; not received
1593	Relay stone				repair
1594	Eggolsheim				New building
1594	Waischenfeld				New building
1596-1597	Bayreuth	City Church	I / P	15th	Extension of the organ by Hermann Raphael Rodensteen (1572–1573) by a pedal with four registers
1599	Cussen		I.	6?	Completion of a new building without a pedal
1599	Bayreuth	Hospital Church			unspecified work
1601	Kitzingen				Extension by a free pedal with a sub-bass 16 ′
1602	Wurzburg	St. Stephan			repair
1605-1607	court	City Church	II / P	20th	New construction in the housing of the previous organ

literature

Günter Dippold : Timotheus Compenius (mentioned 1585–1608). Organ builder and organist . In: Günter Dippold, Alfred Meixner (ed.): Staffelsteiner Lebensbilder (= Staffelsteiner Schriften 11). Staffelstein 2000, ISBN 3-9802943-9-0 , pp. 51-54 ( online ).
Salomon Kümmerle: Compenius, family . In: Encyclopedia of Protestant Church Music . tape 1 . Gütersloh 1888, p. 286 f . ( Digitized version ).
Compenius . In: Uwe Pape (Hrsg.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 42-44 .
Gottfried Rehm : The Compenius organ at Kroppenstedt . Videel, Niebüll 2002, ISBN 3-89906-324-4 , pp. 67 .
Winfried Schlepphorst : Compenius, family . In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . 2nd Edition. Person part, band 4 . Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4 , Sp. 1438-1446 .

Web links

Commons : Timotheus Compenius organs - collection of images, videos and audio files

The Compenius family
Timotheus Compenius in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Günter Dippold: Timotheus Compenius (mentioned 1585–1608). Organ builder and organist . In: Günter Dippold, Alfred Meixner (ed.): Staffelsteiner Lebensbilder (= Staffelsteiner Schriften 11). Staffelstein 2000, ISBN 3-9802943-9-0 , pp. 51-54 ( online , accessed May 18, 2019).
^ Ludger Stühlmeyer : The old inner city churches and their organs. The town church of St. Michaelis. In: The music history of the city of Hof . Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89889-155-4 , pp. 192-194.

personal data
SURNAME	Compenius, Timothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1550
DATE OF DEATH	around 1608

[Dippold-1] A ^b Günter Dippold: Timotheus Compenius (mentioned 1585–1608). Organ builder and organist . In: Günter Dippold, Alfred Meixner (ed.): Staffelsteiner Lebensbilder (= Staffelsteiner Schriften 11). Staffelstein 2000, ISBN 3-9802943-9-0 , pp. 51-54 ( online , accessed May 18, 2019).

[2] Ludger Stühlmeyer : The old inner city churches and their organs. The town church of St. Michaelis. In: The music history of the city of Hof . Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89889-155-4 , pp. 192-194.