Four Sources Relating to Bach, Organ Builder Johann Scheibe, and the Organs in Zschortau and Stötteritz1 Lynn Edwards Buder ItinjudgedhasLeipziglongthreebeenfromorgansknownca.1built705thattobyhisJohannJohanndeathSebastianScheibe,in1748.anTheBachinstrumentlargestexaminedofmakerthese,and judgedthreeorgansbuiltbyJohannScheibe,aninstrumentmaker inLeipzigfromca.1705tohisdeathin1748.Thelargestofthese, built 1710-1712 and 1715-1717 for St. Paul's Church at the University of Leipzig, was a three-manual organ with 48 stops and six transmissions to the pedal division. Another was the medium-sized organ built for Leipzig's St. John's Church, a two-manual 22-stop instrument completed in 1743. The third was the small organ of thirteen stops built 1744-1746 for the church in Zschortau, a village about twelve kilometers north of Leipzig. Only recendy has it come to light that Bach reviewed and recommended a proposal made by Scheibe in 1748 for a new organ in the church in Stötteritz. This article reports my examination of four documents, only one of which has previously been described in the literature. Three documents relate to the organ in Zschortau, the fourth to the organ in Stötteritz. A recent examination of the Superintendent's Archive in Delitzsch revealed the presence of three documents that relate to ^his article originally appeared in Bach-]ahrbuch 97 (2011), 265-68. My thanks to Pastor Chr. Grunow and Frau S. Koitzsch in Stötteritz, Frau C. Calov at the Stadtarchiv Leipzig, and Peter Woliny at the Bach-Archiv Leipzig for their assistance in locating documents. 1 2 Bach Bach's Zschorta from Johann C u, to his superin dated July 13, 1 Cademann adv examined as soo Sunday after Tr patron, Heinric for Streng, or w he advises Str commissioned tell him which he himself wou undated but ob August 7, 1746 groschen in cash having given th "At the same ti Bach's examinat that you pass i (Brandes was ad The third doc report.4 Like t London, the Del unlike the Lon sealed by Bach. there are only "Junii" or "u. langen," mark underneath, ha Delitzsch copy London copy. 2Superintendur De bered pages. 3Petzoldt, Bachstätten: Ein Keiseßihrer Johann Sebsatian Bach (Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 2000), 280. ''The original of this report - with Bach's autograph signature - is deposited in the British Library, London, under the call number Add. Ms. 33965. Four Organ Sources 3 documents. The Delitzsch version is dat London original the "8" has been replaced the London document, the Delitzs memorandum but a stand-alone copy. The thirteen-stop organ in Zschortau, r Orgelbau in 2000, is the only surviving ex oeuvre. Its original disposition was long Hans Wolfgang Theobald was able to loc by the church in Zschortau, including Sc contract dated June 30, 1744 that inclu dated July 13, 1746 from Superintendent saying he would undertake the organ d builder Eduard Offenhauer's reports c undertaken in 1 870.6 Unfortunately, the disappeared.7 The fourth document, held by the Stadtarchiv Leipzig, is a letter dated August 30, 1748 from Patronatsherrin Christiana Clara Glafey née Rinck8 and Superintendent Salomon Deyling to the Leipzig Consistory regarding plans for a new organ for the church in Stötteritz.9 The church was newly built in 1702-1703 (replacing a much smaller building) and a tower probably designed by Johann Christian Senckeisen that significandy increased its seating capacity was added in 1712-1713. Stötteritz, which is now part of Leipzig, was 5For the text of Bach's report, see NBR, no. 235. 6See Theobald, "Zur Geschichte der 1746 von Johann Sebastian Bach geprüften Johann-Scheibe-Orgel in Zschortau bei Leipzig," Bach-]ahrbuch 72 (1986), 81-90. 7Copies of the Zschortau documents were made available to Homer D. Blanchard, who based his description of the Zschortau organ on them. See Blanchard's, The Bach Organ Book (Delaware, Ohio: 1985), 176-79. See also Michael Gerhard Kaufmann, '"...alles tüchtig, fleißig und wohl erbauet...' Johann Sebastian Bachs Prüfung der Scheibe-Orgel in Zschortau," Orgel International 2000/ 6, 404-409. 8Adam Friedrich Glafey (1692-1753), the husband of Christiana Clara Glafey (1710 1777 ), inherited the Obergut in Stötteritz on the death of his father-in-law, Eucharius Gottlieb Rinck, in 1745. Glafey was ennobled in 1748; from 1746 to 1753...