GOTTFRIED SILBERMANN
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14.01.1683 |
Born in the village of Kleinbobritzsch
in the Erzgebirge |
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1685 |
Family moved to the nearby town of Frauenstein |
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1701/02 |
Trained as organ builder by elder brother Andreas in Strassbourg, Worked in France |
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1710 |
Returned to Saxony |
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1711/14 |
Built the organ at Freiberg cathedral |
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1723 |
Was appointed Saxon court - and State Organ Builder by Elector Friedrich August I. |
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1750 |
Commissioned Zacharias Hildebrandt to supervise the building of the organ in the Hofkirche (Court Church) in Dresden |
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04.08.1753 |
Died in Dresden |
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Silbermann's
birthplace |
