Johann Philip Bachmann (1762–1837) was a notable
organ
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builder. He was born in
Creuzburg
Creuzburg is a town and a former municipality on the Werra river in the Wartburgkreis in Thuringia, Germany. Since December 2019, it is part of the town Amt Creuzburg.
Geography
Creuzburg is in the area known as the Muschelkalk. Three mountains ...
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Thuringia, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1793 and worked with
David Tannenberg
David Tannenberg (1728–1804) was a Moravians (ethnic group), Moravian organ builder who emigrated to Pennsylvania. He is cited as the most important American organ-builder of his time. He constructed a number of organs during his lifetime, as ...
.
In 1793, he married Tannenberg’s daughter, who committed suicide in 1799.
Bachmann’s organ-building career began when Tannenberg, concerned that he lacked an apprentice, asked (and received) permission from the Moravian elders to obtain one from Herrnhut, another Moravian community. Bachmann transported an organ from Tannenberg's shop in Lititz, Pennsylvania to Salem, North Carolina where he installed it at the newly built
Home Moravian Church.
[John Druesedow, Tannenberg 1800 Restored, Organ Yearbook 32: 108–117 (2003)] The organ has been restored by Taylor & Boody,
and now resides at
Old Salem
Old Salem is a historic district of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, which was originally settled by the Moravian community in 1766. It features a living-history museum which interprets the restored Moravian community. The non- ...
Visitor Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
In 1800, a disagreement occurred between master and apprentice, although Bachmann did install the 1802 Tannenberg organ in Hebron Evangelical Lutheran Church, Madison, Virginia. However, Bachmann did wind up starting his own business — but Tannenberg supplies the pipes of his first organ (built in 1803). In 1837, he became a piano and cabinet builder.
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1819 Organ by Philip Bachman
1762 births
1837 deaths
German pipe organ builders
American pipe organ builders
German emigrants to the United States
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