Tobias Schramm

Tobias Schramm (born October 9, 1701 in Schandau , † October 14, 1771 in Dresden ) was a German instrument and organ builder .

life and work

It is not known where Tobias Schramm learned organ building and who his teachers were. What is certain is that he was not a student of Gottfried Silbermann . Schramm grew up in Schandau, where he was born in 1701 as the son of an Elbe shipper, and received citizenship of Dresden on May 10, 1742, where he lived all his life. In Dresden he can be traced back to 1749 as a city organ builder and from 1766 as a court organ builder.

Schramm originally built the organ of the Hubertusburg Palace Church, consecrated in 1749, for the Imperial Chapel in Dresden-Neustadt. The instrument was donated by Electress Maria Josepha and implemented at an unknown date. The gilded decorations in the Rococo style were probably created by the court sculptor Johann Benjamin Thomae . The organ has 10 registers , which are distributed on a manual and pedal . Completely unusual for a Catholic church, this organ stands high above the altar.

Using organ parts from the old Dresden Frauenkirche , which had been demolished due to dilapidation , Schramm built a new organ with a few voices in the Resurrection Church in the Dresden district of Plauen . This was consecrated in May 1746. In 1813 the instrument was damaged and looted during the Battle of Dresden .

Tobias Schramm was the father of the Prussian court harpsichordist Johann Christian Schramm († April 9, 1796), the successor to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach . Another son named Johann August Schramm became court organ tuner in Dresden in 1772 and can be traced back to this activity until 1780. His brother Johann Gottlieb Schramm was a Berlin instrument maker whose workshop was taken over by his son Carl Ludwig Schramm.

List of works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1733, 1739, 1768	Dresden	Sophienkirche		II / P	30th	Organ repairs by Gottfried Silbermann (1718–1720); not received
1742	Dresden	woman Church		III / P	43	Repair of the organ by Gottfried Silbermann (1732–1736); not received
1746	Plauen (Dresden)	Resurrection Church (Dresden)		I / P	11	Reconstruction of a 17th century organ; not received
1749	Hubertusburg	Hubertusburg Palace Chapel		I / P	10	New building; Housing preserved; Plant reconstructed in 2001 by Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen
1755	Forst (Lausitz)	Nikolaikirche		II / P	22nd	New building; Housing preserved; Factory replaced in 1920
before 1768	Forst (Lausitz)	St. Mary		II / P	19th	New building; not received

literature

• Schramm, Tobias (organ builder). In: Ernst Ludwig Gerber : New historical-biographical dictionary of the Tonkünstler . tape 4 . Leipzig 1814, p. 117 .
• Schramm, Tobias. In: Gustav Schilling : Musikalisches Conversations-Handlexikon . Contains the full explanation of all musical realities, as well as the biographies of all persons who have earned or distinguished themselves in the art of music, composers, virtuosos, singers, writers, etc. Volume 2 . Neue Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Bad Mergentheim 1842, p. 413 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 2 : Saxony and the surrounding area . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-921140-92-5 , pp. 352 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 2. 2012, p. 352.
2. ↑ Ernst Ludwig Gerber : Schramm, Tobias (organ builder).
3. ^ Gustav Schilling: Schramm, Tobias.
4. ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony. An organ inventory . VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 309 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Flade: Gottfried Silbermann. A contribution to the history of German organ and piano construction in the age of Bach. 2nd Edition. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1953, p. 207. DNB 451290674
6. ↑ Wolfgang Hanke; Johannes Dette: Our office is to praise God: the Forster organs, their builders and their organists in the past and present. Evangelical Church Community of Forst (Lausitz), 2005, p. 9. DNB 978171225
7. ↑ Felix Friedrich, Vitus Froesch: Organs in Saxony - A Guide (=  257. publication of the Society of Organ Friends ). Kamprad, Altenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930550-89-0 , p. 39 .
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Schramm organ in the St. Hubertus Castle Church, Wermsdorf. In: outdooractive.com. Archived from the original on May 17, 2020 ; accessed on May 17, 2020 . 
9. ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony. An organ inventory . VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 273 .
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Church of the Resurrection Dresden – Plauen. In: auferstehungskirche-dresden.de. Archived from the original on October 22, 2019 ; accessed on May 17, 2020 .