There are no bibliographic records that carry his name, as far as we can tell.Ĭaspar Heinrich Horn (1657 – 1718) was the brother of the above and son of Gottfried Horn (1630 – 1663) and his wife Catharina Elisabeth Pfrennicer / Pfretzschner / Drezschner (1637 – 1708). In 1735 his sister Anna Elisabeth died, who had appointed him as her heir to a large fortune, from which, among other things, a foundation for the city of Freiberg in the amount of 70,000 thalers was established and which Horn had ordered in his will shortly before his death in 1736. In 1730, at the age of 70, he asked again for a retirement, but remained in office at the insistence of his friends. In his new role, Horn initiated several reforms of the council. In 1722 he was active again as a council member, and in 1723 he was elected, against his will, to succeed the late mayor Schmieder. After the onset of physical ailments, Horn requested in 1719 that his council activity be suspended and, in the following year, he applied for temporary retirement. In 1697 Christian Siegismund / Sigismund became a Freiberg city council member where he developed a “lively administrative activity in a wide variety of departments”, including mining and city treasury matters. On May 20, 1708, Horn’s mother died, leaving behind her second husband (Martin Albert) and her four children mentioned above. The marriage was childless and as a result Horn was induced to adopt a poor boy, George Friedrich Ettenhuler. In 1685 he married Marie Sophie née Fiderin, the daughter of the raft master Ficker auf Niederauerbach. Around December 23rd, 1682 he became a member of the local Kramer guild and also gained citizenship of the city. There is nothing to be found about when he returned to Freiberg. Indeed, the fact that Martin had got to know the world on his travels seems to have awakened in Horn’s mind the desire to do something similar because when an epidemic disease broke out in Saxony in 1680, he went on a journey using some of his father’s inheritance to travel to England, Holland, France, and Italy. At about this time Christian’s mother married the city councilor and district tax collector Martin Albert, a very educated man who had traveled a lot and who died in 1718 as Freiberg’s mayor. Michael Schirmer on Ap(therefore in his 11th year). Today, his 1804 Christ Church organ is housed with the York Historical Trust in York, Pennsylvania.Lacrymae in Obitum immaturum AdolescentisĬhristian Siegismund / Sigismund Horn (1660 – 1736), the brother of the above, was admitted as a pupil to the Freiberg city school by the then Rector M. Fewer than a dozen Tannenberg organs have survived. In the 1800s his disciples continued to build organs according to his design concepts. More than two centuries after his death, David Tannenberg is revered in church music circles. As he was laid to rest a children's choir from both Lutheran and Moravian churches sang hymns next to his grave in York's God's Acre, the name Moravians gave to all of their cemeteries in both Europe and the New World. The Christ Church organ was played for the first time at Tannenberg's funeral service on May 21. While installing an organ at Christ Lutheran Church in York, Tannenberg suffered a massive stroke on May 17, 1804, and died two days later. Thirty years old when he arrived in Lititz in 1793, Bachman helped Tannenberg build and install more than a dozen organs over the next ten years. In his later years Tannenberg sent to Europe for an assistant and secured the services of John Philip Bachmann. As his health permitted, he also traveled to Moravian communities as far away as Virginia and North Carolina. Burnside Plantation, Bethlehem, PA, By Paul Crumlish, ApOver the next four decades Tannenberg supervised the installation of scores of organs in Moravian and German Lutheran churches around the Commonwealth.
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