Georg Jann (17 January 1934 – 12 February 2019)
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was a German organ builder
Organ building is the profession of designing, building, restoring and maintaining pipe organs.
The organ builder usually receives a commission to design an organ with a particular disposition of stops, manuals, and actions, creates a d ...
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Early life
Jann was born in Kalkberge. In 1948, he began apprenticeship in Potsdam with organ builder Alexander Schuke
Carl Alexander Schuke (14 August 1870 – 16 November 1933) was a German organ builder and from 1894 to 1933 owner and manager of the . The company still exists today.
Life
Born in , Kingdom of Prussia, Schuke was the son of the pastor Karl ...
. He and his family moved on from 1961 to Switzerland, West Berlin and Regensburg. There he took over the workshop of the long-established organ builder Eduard Hirnschrodt in the Regensburg district of Stadtamhof in 1974. The first work in the new workshop was an organ in 1975 for the community of Etzelwang. A short time later, the company received the first orders for a three-manual organ with 40 registers. In 1980 the first four-manual organ for the Church of St. Joseph in Memmingen was completed with 52 registers. Later, the workshop was relocated to south of Allkofen near Regensburg in Bavaria.
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