Johann Peter Migendt
# Johann Peter Migendt

Johann Peter Migendt, also Migend, (1703 – 19 September 1767) was a German organ builder in Berlin and successor to Joachim Wagner.

## Life

Migend was born in Birthälm, Principality of Transylvania (now Biertan, Sibiu County, Romania). From 1731/32 he worked for Joachim Wagner in Berlin, and from 1741 he was his master craftsman after the death of Kallensee. A joint contract with Wagner for a new organ is known from 1747, and in 1749 he took over Wagner's workshop. In 1755 Peter Migendt built a house at what later became Münzstraße 9 in the Spandauer Vorstadt, In 1756 he received the Berlin citizenship.

Among others, his employees were Georg Friedrich Grüneberg (until about 1756) and Ernst Julius Marx, who probably took over the workshop after 1667. He died in 1767 in Berlin.

## List of works (selection)

New organs, rebuildings, two relocations, repairs, offers for new organs and expertises are known from Johann Peter Migendt. The organs in Ueckermünde (previously Berlin, Neue Kirche), the Amalien organ in Berlin-Karlshorst (previously in the castle) and the organ in Ringenwalde have survived.

New organ buildings

| Year | Location | Church | Manual | Casing | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1741 | Trondheim, Norwegen | Nidaros Cathedral | | | Construction of the Wagner organ; preserved |
| 1744 | Angermünde | St. Marien | | | with Wagner; rescheduled received |
| 1749–1751 | Berlin | St.-Petri-Kirche | III/P | 22 | Completion of the organ begun by Wagner, at 40 feet high the largest organ in Berlin at the time; burnt in 1908 |
| 1750 | Hohenselchow [de] | Church | | | Not preserved |
| 1751 | Stettin (Szczecin) | Schlosskirche | I/P | 13 | Building contract 30 July 1750, inaugurated on 2 May 1751 in the presence of Frederick the Great; not preserved |
| 1751/52 | Stettin | St. Gertruden-Kirche | I/P | 12 | Not preserved |
| 1751/1752 | Berlin | Neue Kirche auf dem Gendarmenmarkt | I/P | | Extended by Buchholz in 1847, sold to St. Marien Uckermünde in 1881; preserved |
| 1753 | Berlin | Bethlehems-Kirche | I | | Contract of 6 February 1753, completion on 27 September 1753. Destroyed in November 1943 |
| 1754/1755 | Köpenick | City church | | | Attibution |
| 1755 | Berlin | Schlosskirche | II/P | 22 | Amalienorgel, with Marx, completion December 1755; since 1767 in the Palais Unter den Linden, since 1788 in Schlosskirche Buch, 1939 temporarily stored in the Marienkirche; since 1956 in Karlshorst, Pfarrkirche zur Frohen Botschaft, reconstructed in 2010 → Orgel |
| 1755 | Rixdorf | Böhmische Brüdergemeine | I (/P?) | 5 | |
| 1758 | Joachimsthal | Church | I/P | 12 | |
| ca.1759 | Großmutz [de] | Church | | | Attibution |
| 1760 | Ringenwalde, Uckermark | Dorfkirche | I | 8 | Acceptance 25 October 1760, rebuilt 1913, 2006 reconstruction and extension with an independent pedal, preserved → Orgel |
| 1761 | Stettin | St. Nikolai-Kirche | II/P | 26 | Migendt's largest organ. Financed by the estate of Jakob Friedrich Küsel. Destroyed in the fire of the church on 9/10 December 1811. |
| 1762 | Berlin | Arbeitshaus, church | I/P | 8 | Not preserved |

Other works

| Year | Location | Church | Manual | Casing | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1746/1747 | Berlin-Spandau | St.-Nikolai-Kirche | | | Comprehensive repair of the Wagner organ from 1734; not preserved |
| 1753 | Berlin | Alte Schloss- und Domkirche | II/P | 32 | Transposition and modification of the organ by Johann Michael Röder from 1720. Replaced in 1817 by a new organ by Buchholz. |
| 1754 | Berlin | Jerusalem Church | II/P | 26 | Renovation and extension of the Wagner organ from 1723 (originally from the old Garrison Church in Potsdam). |
| 1756 | Stettin | Cathedral | III/P | 46 | Restoration of the organ by Matthias Schurig and Arp Schnitger (1700); Destroyed in 1944 |
| 1759 | Brandenburg an der Havel | St. Peter and Paul Cathedral | II/P | 33 | Thorough overhaul of the Great Cathedral Organ (Wagner, 1723); preserved |
