Johann Wilhelm Grüneberg
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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Grüneberg (1751 – 21 August 1808) was a German organ builder.
Life[edit]
Born in Zerbst, Grüneberg belongs to a family of organ builders who originated in the region around Magdeburg and later settled in Pomerania and who ran organ building workshops in Stettin and Greifswald organ-building workshops. His father was the organ builder Philipp Wilhelm Grüneberg.
He worked for Gottlieb Scholtze in Neuruppin, among others, but settled in Brandenburg an der Havel in 1775. From then on, he built instruments himself in the tradition of Joachim Wagner, one of whose pupils was his mentor Scholtze.
Alongside Scholtze and Ernst Julius Marx, he is regarded as the most important organ builder in the Mark Brandenburg in the 2nd half of the 18th century. His pupils included his son Johann Carl Wilhelm Grüneberg and his brother-in-law Johann Simon Buchholz.
Grüneberg's residential and workshop building, the "Freyhaus", built in 1723, is still completely preserved and is located in the Hauptstraße in Brandenburg.
Grüneberg was married twice. On 25 January 1776 he married the daughter of the Brandenburg council mason Johann Dahlbritz, Maria Dorothea Dahlbritz, who died in 1779. In the same year he married the daughter of the Brandenburg bookbinder Johann Peter Anton Meier, Johanna Sophia Meier, with whom he had a son, Johann Carl Wilhelm Grüneberg (b. 8 January 1781). Himself died in Brandenburg an der Havel.
Proven works (selection)[edit]
He is said to have created a total of eleven instruments:
| Year | Location | Church | Picture | Manual | Casing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1783 | Berlin-Spandau | Reformierte Johanneskirche | I/P | 13 | Transferred to the village church in Bärenklau in 1902 (the Spandau church was demolished in 1902). After the transfer from Berlin-Spandau, several stops were removed (I/P/10). In 1917, the pewter front pipes were confiscated for war purposes and melted down. In 1928, the Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau company repaired the organ and installed new front pipes made of zinc. From 1991, the organ was restored in the workshop of the company on the basis of organ building files found in Spandau and rebuilt in the Französische Kirche in Potsdam. The organ was played again at Easter 2000. With thirteen stops, the organ is now the largest of the surviving instruments by this organ builder. →Orgel | |
| 1787 | Mittenwalde | St.-Moritz-Kirche | The organ was replaced around 1890 by a new building by W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt, which was replaced in 1959 by a new building by W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt (Oder) Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen. Casing preserved.[1] | |||
| 1793 | Brandenburg an der Havel | St. Johannis | I/P | 15 | 1814 sale and transfer to Plaue, 1845 restoration by Johann Friedrich Turley, 1912 extension by Emil Heerwagen, 1984 restoration by Fahlberg Orgelbau; today II/P/17; some stops preserved | |
| 1794 | Saarmund | Village church | Replaced in 1840 | |||
| 1798 | Magdeburg | Sankt-Katharinen-Kirche | Sold to the Bonhoeffer Church (Friedrichsbrunn) in 1882, renewed there. | |||
| 1798 | Genthin | St. Trinitatis | Replaced in 1913 by Wilhelm Rühlmann; front preserved |
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- "Orgelbauer der Orgellandschaft Brandenburg". Retrieved 19 February 2021.
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