Mathis Orgelbau

Mathis Orgelbau AG is a Swiss organ-building company headquartered in Luchsingen in the canton of Glarus. Founded in 1960 by Manfred Mathis as Orgelbau M. Mathis & Co. in Näfels, the firm has grown into one of Europe's leading organ workshops. It has built more than 400 instruments since its founding and has restored valuable historic organs from various eras. The company is internationally active, with organs installed in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, and the Vatican, among other locations. Its instruments include the organ of the Sistine Chapel in Rome and the Papst-Benedikt-Orgel in Regensburg. Mathis Orgelbau is a member of the Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Orgelbaufirmen (GSO). As of 2026, it employs eleven staff and three apprentices. The company is privately held and was taken over in 2016 by Hubert Stucki and Franz Xaver Höller, who relocated the firm to a new facility in Luchsingen in 2019.

Mathis Orgelbau was founded on 3 May 1960 by Manfred Mathis (1927–2013) as Orgelbau M. Mathis & Co., a limited partnership based in Näfels, Switzerland. Manfred Mathis had trained as a carpenter before learning organ building from 1945 at the Manufacture des grandes orgues Genève. He later studied with French organ builders and worked with the voicers Maurice Hurbein and Paul Beurtin, both of whom had worked at Cavaillé-Coll and Mutin in Paris and Merklin in Lyon, learning the voicing of French Romantic reeds, strings, and flutes. In 1956 he became a voicer at Metzler Orgelbau in Dietikon. After founding his own firm, the first workshop was in an outbuilding of the Letzhof next to the Catholic church of St. Hilarius in Näfels. As the premises became too small, from 1966/1967 the company built on 6,000 square meters of industrial land at Am Linthli 10 in Näfels in several stages. The machine hall of 1966/1967 was expanded in 1969/1970 with a large wood storage hall, a tin pipe workshop with two voicing rooms, a locksmith shop, and a materials warehouse. In 1977 the family business was converted into a stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft). In 1992 Hermann Mathis (born 1955), who had entered his father's company as an apprentice in spring 1971 and trained as an organ builder, took over the management. In 1995 a separate office wing with design rooms was added to the existing buildings. In 2016 the company was taken over by the two organ builders and long-time employees Hubert Stucki and Franz Xaver Höller, who three years later relocated the company. The new company headquarters was built in 2019 after almost eight months of construction at the entrance to Luchsingen. Mathis Orgelbau is today one of the leading organ-building workshops in Europe and has made a name for itself not only through the construction of new organs but also through the restoration of historic organs from various eras worldwide. The number of organs built by Mathis since 1960 now exceeds 400 instruments. As of 2026, the company employs eleven staff and three apprentices. Mathis Orgelbau is a member of the Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Orgelbaufirmen (GSO).

• 2019

  New company headquarters built in Luchsingen after almost eight months of construction.

• 2016

  Company taken over by Hubert Stucki and Franz Xaver Höller.

• 1995

  Addition of a separate office wing with design rooms.

• 1992

  Hermann Mathis takes over management of the company.

• 1977

  Converted from a family partnership into a stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft).

• 1966

  Construction of new workshop buildings on 6,000 m² industrial land at Am Linthli 10, Näfels.

• 1960

  Founded on 3 May by Manfred Mathis as Orgelbau M. Mathis & Co. in Näfels.

Leading European organ-building workshop known for both new instruments and historically informed restorations.

• Pipe organs

• Organ restoration

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