Andreas Silbermann

Andreas Silbermann (* May 16, 1678 in Kleinbobritzsch ( Saxony); † March 16, 1734 in Strasbourg ) was an organ builder of the Baroque era in Alsace. He is the older brother of the famous Saxon organ builder Gottfried Silbermann. The organs that he, his brother Gottfried and Andreas Silbermann's son Johann Andreas Silbermann built are known as " Silbermann organs ".

Life

Andreas Silbermann was the son of master carpenter Michael Silbermann and his second wife Anna Maria (born Preußler ) born. His grandfather was a farmer in Kleinbobritzsch Veit, where his great-grandfather George is detectable as Häusler since 1595. At the turn of 1685/86 was a move of the family in the neighboring town of Mrs. Stone. Here Andreas Silbermann visited the city school. From 1691 to 1694 Silbermann in Freiberg graduated with Master George Lampertius as a carpenter.

From 1697 to 1699 Silbermann organ building completed an apprenticeship at the renowned organ builder Eugenio Casparini, who served as imperial organ builder in Vienna from 1694 to 1697. He spent his time as a journeyman in the organ builder Friedrich Rinck in Bad Durkheim.

From here he moved to the Alsace region, where it is called in 1699 in connection with the renovation of the organ in Buchsweiler ( Bouxwiller ). 1701 could be Silbermann in Strasbourg down and received a year later, the Civil Rights. The following year, his brother Gottfried came to him to Strasbourg and learned from him the Orgelbauen. 1703 the brothers built along an organ for the monastery of Sainte-Marguerite. From 1704 to 1706 Andreas Silbermann studied the French organ building in the court organ builder ( Postman d' orgues du Roy ) François Thierry, a member of the famous French organ builder family Thierry, in Paris. During this time, Gottfried led the workshop.

As Gottfried in 1710 as an organ builder went back to Dresden, Andreas Silbermann was left alone in Strasbourg and continued the workshop. In the next few years he married and had three sons: Johann Andreas Silbermann, Johann Daniel Silbermann and Johann Heinrich Silbermann. All three sons chose his father's profession. Johann Andreas later became his successor.

At the age of 56 years Andreas Silbermann died in Strasbourg.

Works

( Italics indicates that the organ no longer receive or only the prospectus is obtained. )