Friedrich Ladegast ( August 30, 1818 , Hermsdorf (now Tsetlitz , Central Saxony , Saxony , Germany ) - June 30, 1905 , Weissenfels ) - German organ master of the Romantic era.
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Biography
Born into the family of a cabinet maker. He started as a worker in the workshop of his brother Kristlib, an organ builder in Heringswald . Already at the age of twenty, he created his first two organs. He made several improvements to the design of the organ - ( channel , Barker levers ), became a famous master - manufacturer of organs.
Together with his son Oscar (1859-1944) owned a workshop in Weissenfels .
Created about two hundred tools. Many of them today sound not only in Germany, but also in Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Russia. The largest of them is the instrument of the Cathedral in the German city of Schwerin (1871).
Famous works are in the Merseburg Cathedral (built in 1853-1855), the Church of St. Nicholas in Leipzig (1858-1862), as well as in the Tallinn Dome Cathedral (1878) and the famous Muzikferain Concert Hall (1872) in Vienna .
The only surviving instrument of Ladegast’s work in Russia is the oldest of the country's sounding historical organs. It was made in 1868 as a salon tool for the hereditary honorary citizen of Moscow - Vasily Alekseevich Khludov and installed in his house on Novaya Basmannaya Street .
In 1886, Vasily Khludov donated his organ to the Moscow Conservatory and financed its transfer and repair. The Directorate of the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society sent a letter of thanks to Khludov. It was signed by composers Tchaikovsky and Taneyev , publisher Pyotr Yurgenson .
In 1898, the organ was installed in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory . For more than half a century he has been the main rehearsal and concert instrument of the hall. The whole Moscow school of organists grew up on it - including such outstanding musicians as Boris Sabaneev , Alexander Gedike , Mikhail Starokadomsky , Harry Grodberg , Leonid Roizman , Sergey Dizhur , Oleg Yanchenko .
In the late 1950s, the instrument was moved to the concert hall of the Prokofiev Moscow School of Music. In the late 1980s, the organ was dismantled and taken to the Trinity Church in Kozhevniki . And five years later, the instrument was accepted into the funds of the Museum of Music, in a deplorable state. Since 1996, for two years, the instrument was restored in the Vilnius Organ Workshop under the leadership of Rimantas Guchas, and in September 1998 it was opened.
Rewards
- Order of the Vendian Crown
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 120443244 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Literature
- The Organ: An Encyclopedia. 2004
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 1919
- Douglas E. Bush and Richard Kassel, ed. (2006). "Ladegast, Friedrich." The Organ: An Encyclopedia. Routledge pp. 297-298. ISBN 0-415-94174-1 .