Pipe Organ MapJ. D. Sieber
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Johann David Sieber (* ca. 1670; † September 1723 in Brünn/Mähren, now Brno, Czech Republic) was an Austrian organ builder.
Sieber learned organ building from Johann Gottfried Halbich the Elder (ca. 1660–1720) in Grulich (Králíky, Czech Republic). He worked in Prague until 1693 and settled in Brünn in 1702/1703. He was married three times. Before 1695, he married Eva Rosnia, with whom he had four children. He married Catharina Rosalia before 1714 and had five children with her, including Franciscus Ignatius, the only one of his children to learn organ building. He had three children from his marriage to Dorothea (1721). After Sieber's death, his widow married Anton Richter on February 7, 1724, one of Sieber's journeymen who took over the workshop and completed the unfinished organ constructions.
In 1711, Sieber unsuccessfully applied for the construction of a new cathedral organ for St. Stephen's in Vienna. In 1714, he received the commission to build the organ in the Michaelerkirche in Vienna, which is one of the largest preserved Baroque organs in the city. This organ, restored by Jürgen Ahrend in 1987, is the largest historical Baroque organ in Vienna. He had previously built similar large organs at St. Thomas in Brünn (1700) and in 1705 at the Cathedral of St. Stanislaus and Wenzel in Schweidnitz (Świdnica, Poland).
One of Sieber's notable construction features was the creation of a "sounding console" as a continuo organ, the inclusion of reed stops not only in the pedal but also in the manual divisions. He regularly included the Salicional and the Terz or third-sounding stops. In larger organs, the main division was based on a 16-foot stop. In Moravia, Sieber organs have survived only in Polná and in the Žďár monastery (Czech Republic).
Sieber learned organ building from Johann Gottfried Halbich the Elder (ca. 1660–1720) in Grulich (Králíky, Czech Republic). He worked in Prague until 1693 and settled in Brünn in 1702/1703. He was married three times. Before 1695, he married Eva Rosnia, with whom he had four children. He married Catharina Rosalia before 1714 and had five children with her, including Franciscus Ignatius, the only one of his children to learn organ building. He had three children from his marriage to Dorothea (1721). After Sieber's death, his widow married Anton Richter on February 7, 1724, one of Sieber's journeymen who took over the workshop and completed the unfinished organ constructions.
In 1711, Sieber unsuccessfully applied for the construction of a new cathedral organ for St. Stephen's in Vienna. In 1714, he received the commission to build the organ in the Michaelerkirche in Vienna, which is one of the largest preserved Baroque organs in the city. This organ, restored by Jürgen Ahrend in 1987, is the largest historical Baroque organ in Vienna. He had previously built similar large organs at St. Thomas in Brünn (1700) and in 1705 at the Cathedral of St. Stanislaus and Wenzel in Schweidnitz (Świdnica, Poland).
One of Sieber's notable construction features was the creation of a "sounding console" as a continuo organ, the inclusion of reed stops not only in the pedal but also in the manual divisions. He regularly included the Salicional and the Terz or third-sounding stops. In larger organs, the main division was based on a 16-foot stop. In Moravia, Sieber organs have survived only in Polná and in the Žďár monastery (Czech Republic).
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