Friedrich Emanuel Marx

Friedrich Emanuel Marx (27 September 1767 – 25 May 1826) was a German organ builder in Berlin.

Life

Born in Berlin, Marx was named as an organ builder from about 1790 under his father Ernst Julius Marx, whose workshop in Berlin he took over after his death in 1799. Spectacular was the construction of a zinc pipe organ with a cast-iron case by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Hohenofen in the Prignitz, which, however, had to be dismantled again after protests by the organ critic Friedrich Wilke.

Friedrich Emanuel Marx was married to Caroline Louisa Wiebe, the daughter of an innkeeper from Nauen. His son Carl Friedrich Ernst Marx also became an organ builder in Berlin, but no works by him are known.

Marx died in Berlin at the age of 58.

List of works (selection)

Several new organs are known to have been built by Friedrich Marx in the Mark Brandenburg and in Schwerin, as well as rebuilds and repairs. Parts of the organs in Groß Kreutz, Selbelang, Lüdersdorf and Biesen have survived. Instruments that no longer exist are set in italics.

New Organ Buildings

YearLocationBuildingPictureManualCasingNotes
1793–1795 Schwerin Cathedral Completion of the organ by Johann Georg Stein; not preserved
1800 Groß Kreutz Village church Expansion and conversion by Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau in 1906; preserved
1805 Selbelang St. Nikolai Preserved
1818 Beeskow St. Marien II/P 23 Replaced by a cinema organ in 1931.[1][2][3]
1818–1820 Hohenofen Church Zinc pipe organ in cast-iron case by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, later dismantled after protests by Wilke.[4]
1821 Lüdersdorf near Wriezen Village church I/P 8 Preserved.[5][6]
1825 Biesen Village church I 7 Positiv, restoration in 2009 by Wolfgang Nußbücker.[7][8]

Other works

  • 1802 Spandau, Johanniskirche, repair of the Johann Wilhelm Grüneberg organ from 1783, today in Französischer Kirche in Potsdam.[9]

References
  1. Ekkehard Krüger: Die Orgeln der Marienkirche Beeskow. Beeskow 2013. pp. 30–71.
  2. Ekkehard Krüger: Bürgerstolz und Seelenheil. Geschichte, Architektur, Ausstattung der Beeskower Marienkirche. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2012. pp. 284–295
  3. Information Orgeldatabase, with picture (Dutch)
  4. Wolf Bergelt (ed.): Der Fall Hohenofen. Ein Beitrag zur Marx-Schinkel-Forschung (Dokumente der Orgelwelt. Band 7). Freimut & Selbst, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7375-9571-1 Komplettdokumentation
  5. Information Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
  6. Karl Richter: Orgelhandbuch Brandenburg. Volume 4. Märkisch Oderland. Freimut & Selbst, Berlin 2012; Foto (3. Orgel)
  7. Die Dorfkirche in Biesen hat mehrere wertvolle Ausstattungsgegenstände Märkische Allgemeine vom 15. Mai 2010
  8. Information Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
  9. "Die Barockorgel der Französischen Kirche". Retrieved 18 February 2021.

Further reading
  • Wolf Bergelt: Orgelreisen durch die Mark Brandenburg. 3rd edition. Freimut & Selbst, Berlin 2016. pp. 147–151
  • Friedrich Emanuel Marx. In Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (ed.): Lexikon norddeutscher Orgelbauer. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg und Umgebung. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017.
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