Friedrich Emanuel Marx

Friedrich Emanuel Marx (27 September 1767 – 25 May 1826) was a German organ builder in Berlin.

Life Born in Berlin, Marx was named as an organ builder from about 1790 under his father Ernst Julius Marx, whose workshop in Berlin he took over after his death in 1799. Spectacular was the construction of a zinc pipe organ with a cast-iron case by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Hohenofen in the Prignitz, which, however, had to be dismantled again after protests by the organ critic Friedrich Wilke.

Friedrich Emanuel Marx was married to Caroline Louisa Wiebe, the daughter of an innkeeper from Nauen. His son Carl Friedrich Ernst Marx also became an organ builder in Berlin, but no works by him are known.

Marx died in Berlin at the age of 58.

List of works (selection) Several new organs are known to have been built by Friedrich Marx in the Mark Brandenburg and in Schwerin, as well as rebuilds and repairs. Parts of the organs in Groß Kreutz, , Lüdersdorf and Biesen have survived. Instruments that no longer exist are set in italics.

New Organ Buildings

Year Location Building Picture Manual Casing Notes 1793–1795 Schwerin Cathedral Completion of the organ by Johann Georg Stein; not preserved 1800 Groß Kreutz Village church Expansion and conversion by Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau in 1906; preserved 1805 St. Nikolai Preserved 1818 Beeskow St. Marien II/P 23 Replaced by a cinema organ in 1931. 1818–1820 Hohenofen Church Zinc pipe organ in cast-iron case by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, later dismantled after protests by Wilke. 1821 Lüdersdorf near Wriezen Village church I/P 8 Preserved. 1825 Biesen Village church I 7 Positiv, restoration in 2009 by Wolfgang Nußbücker.

Other works 1802 Spandau, Johanniskirche, repair of the Johann Wilhelm Grüneberg organ from 1783, today in Französischer Kirche in Potsdam.