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,Wolf Bergelt: Wagner-Geist im Orgelbau der Schüler. Volume 2. Stettin - St. Nikolai. Berlin 2014. , also The residence and workshop of Peter Migend. Institute for Organ Research Brandenburg, Research 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 Picture 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-KircheIII/P22Completion of the organ begun by Wagner, at 40 feet high the largest organ in Berlin at the time; burnt in 1908 1750 Church Not preserved1751 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 Attribution 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 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 Picture 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 CathedralIII/P46 Restoration of the organ by Matthias Schurig and Arp Schnitger (1700); Destroyed in 1944 1759Brandenburg an der HavelSt. Peter and Paul CathedralII/P33 Thorough overhaul of the Great Cathedral Organ (Wagner, 1723); preserved
References
Further reading Christhard Kirchner: Der Berliner Orgelbauer Peter Migendt (1703–1767). In Mitteilungen des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins 86, 1990, . Christhard Kirchner: Johann Peter Migendt. In Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Hrsg.): Lexikon norddeutscher Orgelbauer. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg und Umgebung. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. pp. 373f.