Johann Friedrich Turley

Johann Friedrich Turley 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	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 Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau
1826	Wölmsdorf	Village church				Built alone; since the mid-1970s in the old chapel of the in Berlin-Lichtenberg, restored in 2015.
ca. 1827	Blankenburg	Village church		I/P	15	With his father.
1829	Wildberg	Village church		I/P	16	Completion of the father's organ
1829	Mützlitz	Village church		I/P	6	Built as an interim organ 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	Ss. Peter and Paul, Wannsee		II/P	19	Casing preserved; new movement by the Schuke company in 1937, Potsdam.

Other works

Year	Location	Buildings	Pictures	Manual	Stops	Notes
1833	Treuenbrietzen	St. Marien				Repair of the Wagner Orgel
1836	Bochow	Village church				Repair of the Wagner organ
1838	Treuenbrietzen	St. Nikolai				Repair of the Wagner organ
1844	Rühstädt	Church				Repair of the Wagner organ.
1849	Oschersleben	St. Stephan				Arbeiten

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.