Münchner Orgelbau Johannes Führer

Münchner Orgelbau Johannes Führer is a German organ-building firm based in Munich. The business traces its origins to a workshop founded by Carl Schuster in the 1920s, which was taken over by Wilhelm Stöberl in 1975. In the early 1990s Stöberl merged his workshop with that of Guido Nenninger in the Sendling district of Munich, where the firm is still headquartered today. Since 1 January 1994 the company has been led by Johannes Führer (born 1959) and operates under the name Münchner Orgelbau Johannes Führer. The firm is a Meisterwerkstätte (master workshop) for artisanal organ building. Its core activities include the maintenance, care, cleaning and renovation of organs, as well as the restoration of valuable historic church instruments and the construction of new organs. Over the decades it has worked on instruments by historic builders such as Jäger, Franz Borgias Maerz, Beuchet-Debiérre, Zeilhuber and Thoma, and has built new organs for churches in Germany, Austria and beyond. Notable projects include the partial reconstruction of the Jäger organ of 1754 in Stams, Tyrol; the restoration of the Thoma organ at Schlehdorf Abbey; the renovation of the Schwenk organ at St. Margaret in Munich; and new organs in Salzburg-St. Benedikt, Sellrain in Tyrol, Bozen, Munich-Trudering, Farchant, Munich-St. Wolfgang, Munich-Hl. Blut and Munich-Gräfelfing. The company is a small, privately owned craft business. Its workshop in Munich-Sendling serves as its base, and its work is documented in a detailed opus list covering projects from 1994 to the present. The firm remains active in organ restoration and new construction, primarily in the Upper Bavarian region but also in other parts of Germany, Austria and occasionally further afield.

The firm's history begins with a workshop founded by Carl Schuster in the 1920s in Munich. In 1975 Wilhelm Stöberl took over the business, which operated under the name Münchner Orgelbau. In the early 1990s Stöberl merged his workshop with that of Guido Nenninger in the Sendling district of Munich, where the company headquarters remains to this day. On 1 January 1994 Johannes Führer (born 1959) took over the management of the long-established firm and continued it under his own name as Münchner Orgelbau Johannes Führer. Führer began with a small team, including an intonateur and a carpenter, focusing on the maintenance, care, cleaning and renovation of organs. Over time the workshop expanded its staff and took on increasingly significant restoration projects. Early projects included the partial reconstruction of the Jäger organ of 1754 in Stams, Tyrol, as well as instruments from France and several from the Diocese of Munich/Freising. The firm also restored a 17th-century gallery organ in Tyrol, the Thoma organ at Schlehdorf Abbey, and renovated the Schwenk organ at St. Margaret in Munich (built 1956, 56 stops, Romantic tonal character). In parallel, the firm built new organs. Notable new instruments include those in Salzburg-St. Benedikt, Sellrain in Tyrol, an organ with 27 stops for Bozen, and one with 23 stops for Munich-Trudering. A new organ behind a historic organ façade in Farchant was another challenging project. The firm also rebuilt a large original English instrument with symphonic character at St. Wolfgang in Munich, and built new organs at Munich-Hl. Blut and Munich-Gräfelfing, as well as several house organs. The company's opus list documents projects from 1994 onwards, with opus numbers assigned to new organs. For example, Opus 1 was a new mechanical organ for Neumarkt/St. Veit St. in 1994; Opus 2 for Dürnzhausen in 1995; Opus 3, a chest organ for Neudörfl near Wiener Neustadt in 1996; Opus 4, a chest organ for St. Margaret in Munich in 1996; Opus 5 for Sellrain in Tyrol in 1996; Opus 6 for Salzburg-St. Benedikt in 1997; Opus 7, a choir organ for Edling in 1997; and Opus 8, a chest organ for St. Maximilian in Munich in 1998. The firm continues to be active in organ restoration and new construction, primarily in Upper Bavaria but also in other regions.

• 1998

  Opus 8: chest organ for St. Maximilian in Munich.

• 1997

  Opus 6: new organ for Salzburg-St. Benedikt; Opus 7: choir organ for Edling.

• 1996

  Opus 3: chest organ for Neudörfl near Wiener Neustadt; Opus 4: chest organ for St. Margaret in Munich; Opus 5: new organ for Sellrain, Tyrol.

• 1995

  Opus 2: new organ for Dürnzhausen.

• 1994

  Johannes Führer takes over the firm on 1 January and renames it Münchner Orgelbau Johannes Führer.

• 1994

  Opus 1: new mechanical organ for Neumarkt/St. Veit St.

• 1990

  Stöberl merges his workshop with Guido Nenninger's in Munich-Sendling.

• 1975

  Wilhelm Stöberl takes over the firm Münchner Orgelbau from Carl Schuster.

• 1920

  Carl Schuster founds the organ-building workshop in Munich.

Master workshop for artisanal organ building, specialising in restoration and new construction.

• 1994

  Opus 1: Neumarkt/St. Veit St.

  New mechanical organ, side-playing.

• 1995

  Opus 2: Dürnzhausen

  New mechanical organ, side-playing.

• 1996

  Opus 3: Neudörfl near Wiener Neustadt

  New chest organ, mechanical.

• 1996

  Opus 4: St. Margaret, Munich

  New chest organ, mechanical.

• 1996

  Opus 5: Sellrain, Tyrol

  New mechanical organ.

• 1997

  Opus 6: Salzburg-St. Benedikt

  New mechanical organ.

• 1997

  Opus 7: Edling

  New choir organ, electric slider chests.

• 1998

  Opus 8: St. Maximilian, Munich

  New chest organ, mechanical.

1. 1Münchner Orgelbau homepagemuenchnerorgelbau.de
2. 2Münchner Orgelbau history pagemuenchnerorgelbau.de
3. 3Wikidata entrywikidata.org
4. 4German Wikipedia articlede.wikipedia.org