The Life and Work of Johann Scheibe

This chapter focuses on the life and achievements of the 18th-century Saxon organ builder Johann Scheibe (1680–1748), who worked in or very near Leipzig for some forty years. He built numerous small organs for village churches (including in Zschortau) and, using some existing material, built new organs for Leipzig University, the New Church, and the St. John's Church and carried out major renovations of the organs at St. Thomas's and St. Nicholas's. His new organs for Leipzig University, St. John's, and Zschortau were examined by J.S. Bach. An innovator and inventor of note and a master organ builder who trained a number of apprentices, Scheibe was admired for creating beautiful organ sound. His son Johann Adolph Scheibe, a composer, was author of Der Critische Musicus.