Christian Vater, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Christian Vater

Organ and harpsichord maker

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1679

Place of Birth: Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 25-Jan-1756

Profession: organ builder, musical instrument maker, harpsichord maker

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Christian Vater

  • Christian Vater (11 October 1679 – 25 January 1756) was a German organ and harpsichord builder. He was born in Hanover; his father Martin Vater was an organ builder and gave him his first instruction in the craft.
  • He went on to work for Arp Schnitger as a journeyman between 1697 and 1700.
  • He worked independently from c.1702.
  • He was organist to the court of the Elector of Hanover from 1708–1709, and became organ builder to the court in 1714, a role in which his son Johannes would follow him.
  • By 1717 he had built or renovated thirty-three organs.
  • He mainly worked in Hanover and surrounding places: Osnabrück and Oldenburg.
  • Outside this area, he worked in Kassel and Darmstadt; he also built an organ for the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, 1724–1726, and rebuilt an organ in the Westerkerk in 1726. Aside from organs, he made harpsichords and clavichords.
  • Only one harpsichord of his has survived, dated 1738, it has a single manual, two 8' choirs and a buff stop, is of short scale and strung in brass.
  • It has a characteristic german double bentside and is rather modestly decorated with gilded geometric knots on the cheek an betstide.
  • The instrument is well preserved (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nüremberg, Germany) and of good quality, making it a popular model for copying.His surviving organs are at Bockhorn, Oldenburg (1722); Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (1726); Wiefelstede, Oldenburg (c.1729); St Nikolai, Gifhorn (1748) and Hohenrode, Bad Hersfeld (1749); remnants such as cases and pipework survive elsewhere.
  • His organs have well-balanced specifications and are typical of the late northern German Baroque organ. Parisian harpsichord maker Antoine Vater was his brother, and taught Henri Hemsch.

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