Gottlieb Scholtze (1713 – 6 April 1783) was a German
pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a Musical keyboard, keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single tone and pitch, the pipes are provide ...
builder. He had his workshop in
Neuruppin
Neuruppin (, , in contrast to ":de:Alt Ruppin, Old Ruppin"; ; North Brandenburgisch dialect, Brandenburgisch: ''Reppin'') is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, the administrative seat of Ostprignitz-Ruppin district. It is the birthplace of the noveli ...
since 1740. He was a pupil of
Joachim Wagner. Along with
Ernst Julius Marx and
Johann Wilhelm Grüneberg, he is considered the most important organ builder in the Mark Brandenburg in the second half of the 18th century. A total of 32 new buildings are recorded by him, including the organ of the parish church in
Küstrin.
Organ Buildings (selection)
References
External links
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Verein für die Restaurierung und Erhaltung der barocken Scholtze-Orgel der St.-Laurentiuskirche zu Havelberg e.V.
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German pipe organ builders
1713 births
1783 deaths
Place of birth missing