Friederich Stellwagen

Friedrich Stellwagen ( letters of the first name also: Friederich or Frideric; baptized February 7, 1603 in Halle ( Saale ), buried March 2, 1660 in Lübeck ) was a German organ builder.

Life

Friedrich Stellwagen was probably born in Halle ( Saale ), where he was baptized in 1603 in St. Ulrich.

No later than 1629, he worked as a journeyman in the workshop of the relocated to Hamburg Kursächsische court organ builder Gottfried Fritzsche active, and at the latest in 1634 he set out in Lübeck as an organ builder independently, but there are indications of a possible work there already 1633rd It is not unlikely that he then relocated to Lübeck already in 1631 or soon after he had married the daughter of his master in Ottensen, Theodora Fritzsche on September 1, 1633 ( Fritzsche led the Hamburg workshop until his death in 1638 continued ). His son Gottfried Stellwagen was also an organ builder.

Friedrich Stellwagen had from 1634 until his death in 1660 in Lübeck de facto organ building privilege, which is 1645 underscored by the general organ maintenance agreement with all five main churches (St. Mary's, Cathedral, St. James, St. Peter and St. Aegidien ).

In St. Jacobi in Lübeck advanced Stellwagen 1636 and 1637 the organ (loading and almost all of the registers are still preserved ) and built from 1637 to 1641 the large organ in the Lübeck Marienkirche order. The figure that eventually gave Stellwagen the two organs of the St. Mary's Church was not only crucial for the work of the organist Franz Tunder and Dieterich Buxtehude: Since Tunder had 1641 not yet begun at the time of organ acceptance from his position as Lübeck Marie organist, was commissioned Heinrich Scheidemann, to examine organist of St. Catherine's Church Hamburg Stellwagen remodeling. Probably Scheidemann was so impressed by Stellwagen work that he was able to bring in St. Catherine, to award the contract the rebuilding of the great organ there at Stellwagen. Meanwhile, reconstruction of Catherine Organ happened in 1644 bis back to 1647.

After Stellwagen had from 1651 to 1653 completed a new order in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund in the Church of St. John monastery and performed on the organ in the local Jakobikirche maintenance work, he was awarded mid 1653 the order to his greatest and probably last work, the organ in the Stralsund Marienkirche. After the conclusion of the contract Stellwagen initially returned for two years in Lübeck, where he worked on the small organ in the Lübeck Marienkirche. Only in mid- 1655 moved Stellwagen the workshop to Stralsund, where in the Marienkirche in the meantime local carpenters had built the organ case.

The Stellwagen organ in St Mary's is now obtained only in part. In addition to the prospectus and the interior partially preserved, there are mainly still about 550 pipes (but from nearly all registers so that a good basis for reconstructing exist ). Despite significant loss of substance Stralsund Mary's organ or Stellwagen organ but is one of Northern Germany's most important Baroque organs. Typical are grouped in clearly separate works pipe (here in the [ main ] work, Upper Positive, Positive feedback and the two lateral pedal towers). The prospectus with its held in the Dutch cartilage style jewelry designs is one of the representative organ brochures early Baroque. The organ was completed in 1659; Stellwagen died shortly before or shortly after the loss of the organ.

Friedrich Stellwagen died before February 25, 1660 and was buried in the Lübeck Cathedral. About his place of death there is no clear information. Maybe he died in Lübeck. A Council minutes of the city of Stralsund on February 25, 1660 can, however, accept the possibility that he died in Stralsund:

" " Sehl: been read write widows Friederich position carriage survivors ( ... ). Nevertheless, to (...) the widows of common city 10 a 12 Jdgs gereichet, also because of them written to EE Raht to Rostock to force the skipper Tide Maass meaning that it geregte before the received cargo widow with theirs, according to his hie be given free of Reverses to Lübeck managed " "

List of Works

Sound Samples

• Large organ in the Lübeck Marienkirche: Audio file ( on the organ: Simon Schumacher ) with the register hollow flute 4 'of the so-called "small" Stellwagen organ in the St. Jacobi Church Lübeck: Live recording from the St. Jakobi Church Lübeck August 2008; 2.38 MB? / I