Van Bever Frères

Organ in Mamers

Van Bever Frères (Flemish Gebroeders Van Bever ) was an organ building company in Laeken / Laken in Belgium from 1880 to 1925.

history

Organ in Laeken, Liebfrauenkirche

The brothers Adrien (1837–1895), Petrus (1845–1918) and Salomon van Bever (1851–1916) were students and employees of Hippolyte Loret in Laken, and from 1867 in Paris . Salomon worked for Aristide Cavaillé-Coll from 1879 to 1880 .

In 1880 they opened the organ building company Van Bever Frères, ancienne maison H. Loret in Laken. In 1881 they took over the late Loret's workshop in Paris for some time. They later set up a branch in Amiens in northern France . In 1895, Salomon van Bever took over the management alone after Adrien's death. In 1904 the branch in Amiens was closed due to the unrest.

In 1916 François, Louis and Nicholas Draps, Salomon's nephews, took over the company and continued to run it in Laken as Van Bever Frères until 1925.

Work (selection)

The organ building company Van Bever Frères built over 150 organs, mainly in Belgium and northern France, some in Germany, America and Africa.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1880	Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu	Église Saint-Philbert		II / P	24	receive
1882	Compiègne	Église Saint-Antoine		II / P	25th	in housing by Caulier from 1832
1883	Everberg	Sint Martinus-en-Lodewijkkerk		II / p	16	receive
1895	Brussels	Sint Jan-Berchmans College		II / P	24 (23)	receive
1895	Senlis	Chapelle du Lycée Saint Vincent		II / P	27	receive
1895	Rue	Église Saint-Wulphy		II / P	17th	receive
1896	Le Mans	Collège Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix		II / P	26th	receive
1896	Abbeville	Chapelle Saint-Pierre		II / P	18th	receive
1898	Jette	Sint-Pieterskerk		II / P	32	receive
1900	Amiens	Église Saint-Rémy		III / P	39	receive
1901	Amiens	Église Saint-Acheul		II / P	19th	receive
1901	Mamers	Église Notre-Dame		II / P	19th	receive
1902	Lille	Église Saint Sauveur		II / P	14th	Choir organ preserved
1903	Lille	Église Saint-Sauveur		III / P	45	receive
1904	Bruges	Carmelite Church		II / P	19 (16)	receive
1905	Sint-Agatha-Berchem	Sint-Agathakerk		II / P	16	receive
1905	Commodity	Sint-Amandus en Sint-Blasiuskerk		II / P	27	Replaced in 1990
1906	Ukkel	Kerk van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van de Rozenkrans		II / P	16	receive
1907	Ternat	Sint-Gertrudiskerk		II / P	28	receive
1908	Moustier-sur-Sambre	Église Saint-Frédégand		II / P	20th	receive
1908	Laeken / Laken	Église Notre-Dame / Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk		II / P	13	Choir organ preserved
1910	Brussels	Église Saint-Dominique / Sint-Dominicuskerk		III / P	36	receive
1912	Morialmé	Église Saint-Marin		II / P	19th	receive
1914	Courtrai	Église Saint-Josephe / Sint-Jozefkerk (Carmelites)		III / P	33	Destroyed in 1944
1915	Braine l 'Alleud	Église Saint-Étienne		II / P	23	receive
1916	Laeken / Laken	Sint-Lambertuskerk		II / P	24 (20)	receive

literature

• Jean-Pierre Félix: Inventaire descriptif des archives des facteurs d'orgues Van Bever (1880-1916) de Laeken-Amiens . 1989
• Malou Haine, Nicolas Meeùs: Dictionnaire des facteurs d'instruments de musique en Wallonie et à Bruxelles du 9e siècle à nos jours . 1986, pp. 411f.

Web links

• Adrien van Bever Inventoryis (Dutch)
• Salomon van Bever Inventoryis (Dutch)
• Gebroeders Van Bever Orgeldatabase, 61 organs (Dutch)

• Adrien Van Bever Palissy, Ministère français de la Culture, some organs in France

Individual evidence

1. ^ Organ in Saint-Philbert Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
2. ^ Organ in Jette Orgeldatabase
3. ^ Organ in Amien's organ database
4. ↑ Organ in Mamer's organ database
5. ^ Organ in Lille Orgeldatabase
6. ↑ Inauguration program (French)
7. ↑ organ in Karmelietenkerk Bruuge organ Database
8. ^ Organ in Liebfrauenkirche Laken Orgeldatabase
9. ↑ Organ in Dominikuskirche Brussels organ database
10. ↑ Opening program (French)
11. ^ Organ in Kortrijk Orgeldatabase