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Johann Friedrich Turley (23 June 1804 – 1855 "not far from Köthen") was a German organ builder, who worked in Brandenburg in the first half of the 19th century.

Life

Born in Treuenbrietzen, Turley learned organ building from his father Johann Tobias Turley and was his collaborator in the last years of his life. Several new organs were built by the two of them together. After his father's death, he took over the workshop and moved with the company to Brandenburg, where he worked together with his half-brother Albert Turley after 1844. He bore the title "Königlich-Preußischer Orgelbaumeister". On 28 December 1827, he married Theresia Meyer from Wendhausen, from whom he divorced before 1844.

Work (selection)

Several new organs by Johann Friedrich Turley are known - most of them in the western Mark Brandenburg. Characteristic since the 1830s are the "coreless lingual pipes" with deeply seated cores and the ivory mouthpieces on tongue pipes. Some instruments have survived. Instruments that are no longer extant are set in italics.

New organ buildings

Year	Location	Building	Picture	Manual	Stops	Notes
1824	Altlüdersdorf [de] near Gransee	Village church		I	8	With the father Johann Tobias Turley, according to the inscription in the organ, no pedal; preserved
1824	Frankenfelde near Luckenwalde	Village church		I/P	15	First own organ, stop trombone 16′; 2019 extensive reconstruction of the original disposition by the Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau company
1826	Wölmsdorf	Village church				Built alone; since the mid-1970s in the old chapel of the Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge [de] in Berlin-Lichtenberg, restored in 2015.
ca. 1827	Blankenburg (Uckermark)	Village church		I/P	15 (11)	With his father (?).
1829	Wildberg	Village church		I/P	16 (12)	Completion of the father's organ
1829	Mützlitz (Nennhausen)	Village church		I/P	6	Built as an interim organ (originally only 4 stops) for Perleberg, 1831–1833 in the teachers' seminary there, then installed in Mützlitz; extended and rebuilt several times.
1831	Perleberg	St. Jakobi		II/P	36	1913 New construction by Fa. Faber & Greve, Salzhemmendorf; 1958 New construction by Fa. Gebr. Jehmlich, Dresden.
1834	Teschendorf	Village church		II/P	12
1836–1838	Salzwedel	Katharinenkirche			42
1836	Buko	St. Johannes
1837	Berlin-Wannsee (Nikolskoe)	Ss. Peter and Paul, Wannsee		II/P	19	Casing preserved; new movement by the Schuke company in 1937, Potsdam.

Other works

Pupils

Turley passed on his knowledge to his half-brother Albert Turley. From 1830 to 1833, he taught Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller. Gottfried Wilhelm Baer was also presumably active with him.

References

1. ^ Winfried Topp, Uwe Pape: Norddeutsche Orgelbauer und ihre Werke. Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller, Pape, 2001, p. 319.
2. ^ orgellandschaftbrandenburg.de, retrieved 21 February 2021.
3. "Turley-Orgel renoviert und instandgesetzt" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
4. Orgel in Blankenburg, Orgeldatabase (Dutch).
5. Uwe Pape: Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller. Berlin 1999. p. 211.
6. Ein neuer Geist auf neuen Wegen with contemporary design drawing, retrieved 21 February 2021.
7. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, p. 150, retrieved 21 February 2021.
8. Orgel in Berlin-Wannsee, Orgeldatabase (niederländisch).
9. Orgel in Rühstädt, Nomine e.V., retrieved 21 February 2021.
10. Uwe Pape: Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller. Berlin 1999. p. 14; Bergelt: Die Mark Brandenburg. 1988, p. 44.

Further reading

• Wolf Bergelt: Die Mark Brandenburg: Eine wiederentdeckte Orgellandschaft. Pape, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-921140-32-3
• Arthur Jaenicke: Tobias Thurley bäckt Semmeln und baut Orgeln. Berlin 1960 (biographical novel).

• German pipe organ builders
• 1804 births
• 1855 deaths
• People from Treuenbrietzen