Wilhelm Lang (organ builder)

Wilhelm Lang (born August 1, 1794 - October 18, 1858 ) was a German organ builder in Berlin .

Life

Wilhelm Lang was a student of Johann Simon Buchholz in Berlin and then worked for his son Carl August Buchholz , where he was also a works manager. In 1839 he and Ferdinand Dinse founded their own organ building workshop, Lang & Dinse, at Alte Jakobstrasse 71 in Berlin. Dinse had also worked at Buchholz and married a daughter of Wilhelm Lang.

After Wilhelm Lang's death in 1858, Dinse continued to run the workshop alone. The son Albert Lang founded his own company in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Works (selection)

More than 15 new organs from the Lang & Dinse company are known today in the Mark Brandenburg, as well as repairs and other work. The organs were of good quality and were based on the models of Carl August Buchholz. Some have been preserved.

New organs

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1843	Neulietzegöricke	Village church		I / P	10	2016/17 restoration and reconstruction of the original organ by Scheffler
1845	Altwustrow , Oderbruch	Village church		I / P	10	Conversions and re-arrangements around 1950 and 1978 by Fahlberg to I / 5, now without a pedal
1845	Altmädewitz , Oderbruch	Village church		I / P	11	receive
around 1845	Lunow , Barnim	Village church		I / P	9	Built in 1848, restored by Scheffler in 2010
1847	Berlin-Kreuzberg	St. Jacobi Church		II / P	31	worked with Johann Friedrich Schultze , destroyed in 1945
1849	Stangenhagen , Teltow	Village church		I / P	6?
around 1849/50	Spandau	St. Marien am Behnitz
around 1850 (?)	Glienick , Teltow	Village church		I / P	7th
1852	Falkenhagen , Uckermark	Village church		II / P	11
1852	Bandelow , Uckermark	Village church		II / P	14th
after 1855	Mallnow	Village church				Destroyed in 1945
1856	Schönwerder , Uckermark	Village church		II / P	11
1857	Lüdersdorf , Uckermark	Village church		I / P	8th	2014 general overhaul and new prospect pipes by Scheffler
1857	Lichterfelde	Village church				1995 extensive renovation and new disposition in the old housing by Fahlberg on I / P, 7
1858	Werder , Oberbarnim	Village church		I / P	7th	heavily damaged and not playable
1858	Reitwein , Oberbarnim	Village church				Destroyed in 1945
?	Alt Rosenthal	Village church				Destroyed in 1945

literature

• Wilhelm Lange . In: Uwe Pape , Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. S. 328f.

Web links

• Wilhelm Lang Institute for Organ Research

Individual evidence

1. ^ Organ in Neulietzegöricke Institute for Organ Research
2. ^ Organ in Altwustrow Institute for Organ Research
3. ^ Organ in Altmädewitz Institute for Organ Research
4. ^ Organ in the Lunow Institute for Organ Research
5. ↑ Organ restoration Scheffler organ building workshop
6. ^ Organ in Berlin St. Jacobi Church Institute for Organ Research (Dutch)
7. ↑ Information Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
8. ↑ Helmut Kißner, Cordia Schlegelmilch: The prehistory. In: Helmut Kißner, Cordia Schlegelmilch: The Church of St. Marien am Behnitz in Spandau. A forgotten work by August Soller. Berlin 2004, pp. 23–38, here p. 38.
9. ↑ Information Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
10. ^ Organ in Falkenhagen Orgeldatabase (Dutch), based on the Brandenburg Organ Manual. Part 1.
11. ^ Organ in Bandelow Orgeldatabase (Dutch), based on the Brandenburg Organ Manual. Part 1.
12. ^ Organ in Schönwerder Orgeldatabase (Dutch), based on the Brandenburg Organ Manual. Part 1.
13. ^ Organ in Lüdersdorf Institute for Organ Research
14. ^ Organ restoration Scheffler, with a different date 1876
15. ↑ Organ in Lüdersdorf Organ Index, with the year 1876 (restricted access)
16. ^ Organ in Lichterfelde Institute for Organ Research
17. ^ Organ in Werder Institute for Organ Research
18. ^ Losses in the district of Märkisch-Oderland after the Second World War Institute for Organ Research, also called Alt Rosenthal and Mallnow