Wilhelm Heinrich Bethmann

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Wilhelm Heinrich Bethmann (also: Wilhelm Heinrich Bäthmann and Wilhelm Heinrich Baethmann ; born April 30, 1745 in Goslar , † December 27, 1802 in Hanover ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Wilhelm Heinrich Bethmann was the son-in-law of Christian Vater the Younger , a son of the organ builder Christian Vater .

According to the address books of the city of Hanover , a company with the same name can be identified as the only organ builder in Hanover or von Linden between 1798 and 1833 for more than three decades .

For a similar period - also at the time of the Electorate of Hanover - the work of Bethmann's son "[...] Christian Bethmann (Hanover-Linden), 1783-1833" is given.

The organ builder Ernst Wilhelm Meyer was a student of Wilhelm Heinrich Baethmann .

In the year of Bethmann's death, the Hanoverian Address Book recorded the organ builder's seat in Beckerstrasse in Calenberger Neustadt in 1802 .

Well-known work

Wilhelm Heinrich Baethmann's work was mainly limited to repairs to existing organs.

Archival material

Archives about the organ builders Bethmann and Baethmann can be found, for example

  • in the city ​​archive of Hanover , there also to three other organ builders from the 18th and 19th centuries, including the two named father.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ludwig Hoerner : Organ builder. In: ders .: agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900. Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank . Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , p. 355.
  2. ^ A b Bernd Adam, Michael A. Flechtner: The St. Vitus Church in Wilkenburg - Nine centuries of planning and building history . Celle. Ströher-Druck 2001, p. 63 and note 219 on p. 79
  3. ↑ a b c Uwe Pape : The organs of the city of Celle (= North German organs , vol. 13) (= publication of the Society of Organ Friends , Volume 178). Pape, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-921140-55-2 , passim ; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ a b c Uwe Pape (ed., Commentator): The workshop book of the organ builder Christian Vater (= sources for the history of the city of Hanover , issue 1) (= publication of the Society of Organ Friends , volume 183) (= publication of the International Working Group for Organ Documentation (IAOD), episode 4). Pape, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-921140-60-9 , pp. 11, 15; Preview over google books.
  5. ^ A b Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel: The Organ. An Encyclopedia (= Encyclopedia of keyboard instruments ). Routledge, New York, NY [et al.] 2006, ISBN 0-41594174-1 , p. 488; online through google books.
  6. ^ Harald Vogel (text), Volkhard Hofer (photos): Organs in Lower Saxony. Edited by the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung. Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 , p. 300; Preview over google books.
  7. ↑ Hannoversches Address Book for the year 1802 , part of scholars, merchants, shopkeepers, manufacturers, craftsmen [et] c. In alphabetical order , p. 76; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  8. ↑ Michael Christian Müller : Organ Monument Maintenance. Basics and methods using the example of the district of Nienburg / Weser (= workbooks on monument preservation in Lower Saxony , vol. 29). Edited by Christiane Segers-Glocke , Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation. Niemeyer, Hameln 2003, ISBN 3-8271-8029-5 , p. 206 u. ö .; Preview over google books.
personal data
SURNAME Bethmann, Wilhelm Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baethmann, Wilhelm Heinrich; Bäthmann, Wilhelm Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1802
Place of death Hanover