Christoph Treutmann
organ builder
Christoph Treutmann (c. 1673 – 10 June 1757), also Christoph Treutmann der Ältere unlike his son of the same name, was a German organ builder of the Baroque period. He learned in Magdeburg from Heinrich Herbst and also founded his own workshop there. His most important surviving work is the great organ of the Stiftskirche Grauhof.
Life
Born in Silesia, Treutmann learned his trade from the Herbst family of organ builders in Magdeburg, Duchy of Magdeburg. His teacher was Heinrich Herbst the Younger, the son of Heinrich Herbst the Elder. Herbst (the Younger) later built the cathedral organ in Halberstadt between 1714 and 1718. Since Treutmann's works show stylistic similarities to the organs of the Hamburg organ builder Arp Schnitger, it is assumed that Treutmann worked at least temporarily with the latter as a journeyman and possibly also participated in the construction of the "Arp Schnitger organ" (1689 to 1694) in the St.-Johannis-Kirche in Magdeburg.
In 1695, Treutmann became self-employed and founded his own workshop around 1700. His first independent work is known to be the repair of the Brunswick Cathedral in 1700. After that, the repair of an organ built by Gottfried Fritzsche in 1637 in the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Allermöhe near Hamburg is attested.
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