Pipe Organ MapE. Kemper
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Emanuel Philipp Kemper, originally Emanuel Kempper, born on June 14, 1844, in Lübeck and died on May 10, 1933, in Lübeck, was a German organist and organ builder. He founded the family business E. Kemper & Sohn in Lübeck. During the founder’s lifetime, the organ-building company gained a respected reputation for the preservation and restoration of Baroque organs, especially those in the Alten Land region. After 1945, the company's business expanded rapidly with numerous new constructions. Of the 1,000 post-war instruments originally built, about 100 organs still exist in the Nordkirche, including the largest instrument at the time in Lübeck's St. Mary's Church.
Emanuel (Philipp) Kemper was the son of music teacher Adolf Kemper. He learned the trade of carpentry after attending Lübeck Cathedral School and then apprenticed in organ building at the Danish firm Marcussen & Søn. He received lessons in organ playing and harmony from Jakobi organist Johann Jochim Diedrich Stiehl and Konrad Geibel, the brother of Emanuel Geibel. Kemper founded his own company in 1868, taking over the organ-building firm of Theodor Vogt and assuming responsibility for almost all of Lübeck's organs. From 1872 until the end of 1930, he also served as the organist at Lübeck's St. Jacob's Church, where Hugo Distler succeeded him.
His son, Karl (Reinhold) Kemper, born in 1880 in Lübeck and died in 1956, took over the business in 1910, continuing it under the name E. Kemper & Sohn. He reintroduced the mechanical slider chest and became a significant figure in the Organ Reform Movement. His restorations of Baroque organs in the 1920s and 1930s set a standard for responsible material handling, such as the restoration of the Altenbruch organ in 1925, advised by Hans Henny Jahnn. The company expanded in 1919 and opened a branch in Bartenstein, East Prussia, in 1929, where Werner Renkewitz worked. They carried out significant modifications in the Frauenburger Cathedral (1935) and the St. Mary’s Church in Danzig (1935/38), connecting the choir and main organs with electric wires, and in Königsberg in 1943, built the largest organ in East Prussia.
E. Kemper & Sohn also delivered individual organs to Sweden, Luxembourg, the Middle Rhine, and Rome. The grandson, Emanuel (Magnus) Kemper, born in 1906 in Apenrade and died in 1978 in Lübeck, focused on Northern Germany and the Middle Rhine. The destruction of World War II led to high demand for new constructions. His new instruments are often critically viewed today, as some exhibited significant defects within a short period and were either demolished after a few decades or sold to Eastern and East Central Europe.
In 1974, his son Emanuel Reinhold Kemper, born on January 8, 1947, in Lübeck and died on November 10, 2007, in Lübeck, took over the company, renaming it Lübecker Orgelbau GmbH (E. Kemper). The company went bankrupt four years later. In 1978, he re-established it as E. Kemper Lübecker Orgelbau and in 1981, with his mother Ella Kemper, as Kemper E. u. E. Orgelbau, performing various repairs and modifications on organs.
Emanuel (Philipp) Kemper was the son of music teacher Adolf Kemper. He learned the trade of carpentry after attending Lübeck Cathedral School and then apprenticed in organ building at the Danish firm Marcussen & Søn. He received lessons in organ playing and harmony from Jakobi organist Johann Jochim Diedrich Stiehl and Konrad Geibel, the brother of Emanuel Geibel. Kemper founded his own company in 1868, taking over the organ-building firm of Theodor Vogt and assuming responsibility for almost all of Lübeck's organs. From 1872 until the end of 1930, he also served as the organist at Lübeck's St. Jacob's Church, where Hugo Distler succeeded him.
His son, Karl (Reinhold) Kemper, born in 1880 in Lübeck and died in 1956, took over the business in 1910, continuing it under the name E. Kemper & Sohn. He reintroduced the mechanical slider chest and became a significant figure in the Organ Reform Movement. His restorations of Baroque organs in the 1920s and 1930s set a standard for responsible material handling, such as the restoration of the Altenbruch organ in 1925, advised by Hans Henny Jahnn. The company expanded in 1919 and opened a branch in Bartenstein, East Prussia, in 1929, where Werner Renkewitz worked. They carried out significant modifications in the Frauenburger Cathedral (1935) and the St. Mary’s Church in Danzig (1935/38), connecting the choir and main organs with electric wires, and in Königsberg in 1943, built the largest organ in East Prussia.
E. Kemper & Sohn also delivered individual organs to Sweden, Luxembourg, the Middle Rhine, and Rome. The grandson, Emanuel (Magnus) Kemper, born in 1906 in Apenrade and died in 1978 in Lübeck, focused on Northern Germany and the Middle Rhine. The destruction of World War II led to high demand for new constructions. His new instruments are often critically viewed today, as some exhibited significant defects within a short period and were either demolished after a few decades or sold to Eastern and East Central Europe.
In 1974, his son Emanuel Reinhold Kemper, born on January 8, 1947, in Lübeck and died on November 10, 2007, in Lübeck, took over the company, renaming it Lübecker Orgelbau GmbH (E. Kemper). The company went bankrupt four years later. In 1978, he re-established it as E. Kemper Lübecker Orgelbau and in 1981, with his mother Ella Kemper, as Kemper E. u. E. Orgelbau, performing various repairs and modifications on organs.
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