Hans Christoph Fritzsche

{{Short description|German organ builder (died 1674)}}

Hans Christoph Fritzsche (before 1629 – 1674 in Hamburg) was a German organ builder from Dresden who worked in northern Germany, Denmark and southern Sweden.

Life

Fritzsche was the son of the organ builder Gottfried Fritzsche from his first marriage. In 1655, he established his workshop in Copenhagen. There were family ties to Friederich Stellwagen, as he married Fritzsche's sister Theodora. His son-in-law Hans Heinrich Cahman married his daughter Anna Christina and continued the business after Fritzsche died during work on the new building in Hamburg-Neuenfelde.

Proven works

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! Year !! Location !! Church !! class=unsortable | Picture !! Manual !! Stops !! class="unsortable" | Notes

1646

| Handorf

| St. Marien

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|

| 13

| New building; some stops preserved

1647–1649

| Cuxhaven-{{Ill|Altenbruch|de}}

| St.-Nicolai-Kirche

| 160x160px

| II/P

| 25

| Extension conversion;Konrad Küster: [http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/4668/ „Wolbestimmete Musica ... nach Davids Manier und Gebrauch“. Eine Altenbrucher Trauerpredigt von 1653 als Schlüssel zu norddeutscher Musikkultur]. In Stader Jahrbuch 2007 (Stader Archiv, N.F. 97), {{pp.|55|92}}; and [http://www.orgelstiftung.com/altenbruch/h-c-fritzsche/ Orgelstiftung Altenbruch: H.C. Fritzsche] after further enlargement by Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer (1727-1730) III/P/35 (present condition); 12-16 stops preserved by Fritzsche

1651 (ca.)

| Lisbon

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|

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| Delivery of an organ of unknown size

1652

| Oederquart

| St. Johannis

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| III/P

|

| Including 10 stops of the predecessor organ (1581, badly damaged in 1632); 1678-1682 extension by Arp Schnitger, who moved the organ from the choir loft to the north loft; nothing has survived of the Fritzsche organ.

1653

| Oberndorf (Oste)

| St.-Georgskirche

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| Later replaced

1655

| Hamburg

| St. James' Church, Hamburg

| File:Arp Schnitger organ St. Jacobi Hamburg.jpg

| IV/P

| 53 ?

| 1655-1658 major renovation work for the 1656 {{Ill|Lübische Mark|de}};Fock 1974, {{p.|45|56}}. → main article: Orgel der Hauptkirche Sankt Jacobi

1655

| Copenhagen

| Trinitatis Church

|

| III/P

| 42

| New building

1662

| Helsingør

| Marienkirche

|

| II/P

| 24

| Reconstruction of the Lorentz organ (1634-1636) by order of Dietrich Buxtehude; only the front pipes of the Rückpositiv are preserved.

1662/63?

| Helsingborg

| Sankt-Marien-Kirche

|

| II/P

| 24

| Work commissioned by Dietrich Buxtehude. The organ was sold to the church of Torrlösa in 1849.

1666

| Halmstad (Schweden)

|

|

| II/P

| 24

| New building

1670–1671

| St. Catherine's Church, Hamburg

|

|

| IV/P

|

| Extension of the pedal by principal 32' and trombone 32'; the work was not completed (Fritzsche received a payment of 960 Mark lüb.).Fock 1974, {{p.|45}} The work was completed in 1671-1674 during the extension to IV/P 58 by Johann Friedrich Besser (before 1640-1693).{{cite book|editor=Uwe Pape and Wolfram Hackel |title=Lexikon norddeutscher Orgelbauer |volume=Bd. 3: Sachsen-Anhalt und Umgebung |publisher=Pape |location=Berlin |date=2015 |isbn=978-3-921140-98-7 |pages=49–50}} ausgeführt.

1671

| Dömitz

| Johanneskirche

|

| II/p

| 13

| New building

1673

| Hamburg-Neuenfelde

| St. Pankratius-Kirche

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|

| Completed by Cahman. Later taken by Arp Schnitger to Stade (castle church) and subsequently sold to Bremen.[http://www.schnitgerorgel.de/orgel/geschichte.php Neuenfelde, St. Pankratius] In his new construction, Schnitger integrated older material from two stops by Fritzsche.

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite book

|author=Gustav Fock

|title=Arp Schnitger und seine Schule. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Orgelbaues im Nord- und Ostseeküstengebiet

|publisher=Bärenreiter

|location=Kassel

|date=1974

|isbn=3-7618-0261-7}}

  • {{cite book

|editor=Marc Honegger, Guenther Massenkeil

|title=Das große Lexikon der Musik

|volume=3

|publisher=Herder

|location=Freiburg i. Br. [et al.]

|date=1980

|isbn=3-451-22921-8}}

  • {{cite book

|editor=Kerala J. Snyder

|title=The Organ as a Mirror of Its Time

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|location=Oxford

|date=2002

|isbn=0-19-514415-5

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=joY3CiRqGgUC}}

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