Biographical Dictionary of the Organ
Organ Biography > Places and Organs > Saxony > Leipzig > St. Thomas’
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1356 | Built by Joachim Schund |
| List of Organists | |
|---|---|
| 1549-51 | Wolfgang Figulus (1525-1591) |
| 1560-95 | Nikolaus Elias Ammerbach (1530-1597) |
| Andreas Düben (1558-1625) | |
| 1594-1615 | Sethus Calvisius (1556-1615) |
| Georg Engelmann (-1632) | |
| 1631- | Tobias Michael (1592-1657) |
| August Kühnel (-1684) | |
| 1677-1701 | Johann Schelle (1648-1701) |
| 1680-82 | Vincenzo Albrici (1631-1696) |
| 1684-1722 | Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) |
| 1723-50 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
| 1729 | J. G. Görner (1697-1778) |
| 1789-1801 | Johann A. Hiller (1728-1804) |
| Johann Georg Hermann Voigt (1769-1811) | |
| 1804-10 | August E. Müller (1767-1817) |
| 1812-21 | Friedrich Schneider (1786-1853) |
| 1814 | Wilhelm Friedrich Riem (1779-1857) |
| c1820- | August Pohlenz (1790-1843) |
| 1868 | Ernst Friedrich Richter (1808-1879) |
| 1869- | Ludwig Papier (1829-1878) |
| 1878-92 | Wilhelm Rust (1822-1892) |
| 1880- | Karl Piutti (1846-1902) |
| 1892-1918 | Gustav Schreck (1849-1918) |
| 1902-18 | Karl Straube (1873-1950) |
| 1934 | Volker Gwinner (1912-2004) |
| 1946-47 | Friedrich Wilhelm Arno Schonstedt (1913-) |
| 1956-61 | Kurt Thomas (1904-1973) |
| 1961-72 | Erhard Mauersberger (1903-1982) |
| List of Assistant Organists | |
|---|---|
| 1800-04 | August E. Müller (1767-1817) |
| Helmut Walcha (1907-1991) | |
| Herbert Collum (1914-1982) | |
| List of Other Organists | |
|---|---|
| 1917-19 | Páll Isólffson (1893-1974) |