Tobias Brunner

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Tobias Brunner (baptized 23. August 1602 ; † around 1665 ), a German was organ builder of the Baroque .

Life

Brunner was officially baptized on August 23, 1602 in Hormersdorf (Saxony). He was an apprentice to the organ builder Gottfried Fritzsche in Ottensen . As a journeyman to Gottfried Fritzsche, he was involved in the construction of the organ for the main church Beatae Mariae Virginis in Wolfenbüttel from 1620 to 1624 and in 1629 the organ in St. Maria Magdalena in Hamburg .

On April 24, 1631, he married his master's daughter, Sybilla, in Ottensen, and around 1632 he moved to Lunden (according to the church registers available there, he had 5 children baptized in Lunden) and maintained an organ-building workshop there, presumably until his death.

Today two organs that Tobias Brunner built are still preserved. The one in St. Martin's Church in Tellingstedt from 1642 is the oldest playable organ in Schleswig-Holstein. A second is in the St. Secundus Church in Hennstedt (Schleswig-Holstein).

Brunner probably died around 1665.

literature

  • Lars Brunner: The organ builder Tobias Brunner (1602 – ca.1660), a student of Gottfried Fritzsche , in: Ars organi, 67 (2019), issue 2, pp. 92–97. ISSN  0004-2919

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church book of the Evangelical Lutheran churches, Hormersdorf / Erzgebirge
  2. ↑ a b Günter Seggermann, Wolfgang Weidenbach: historical organs between the North and Baltic Seas. Merseburger, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-87537-233-6 .
  3. ^ Church register Hamburg-Ottensen
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH baptized August 23, 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Hormersdorf
DATE OF DEATH around 1665