David Tannenberg was a Moravian organ builder who emigrated to Pennsylvania.
15 Facts About David Tannenberg
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David Tannenberg is cited as the most important American organ-builder of his time.
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David Tannenberg constructed a number of organs during his lifetime, as well as other keyboard instruments.
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David Tannenberg received a call to join the Moravian community in Zeist and traveled there in 1748.
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David Tannenberg married Anna Rosina Kern not long after arriving.
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David Tannenberg was a joiner by trade and began to practice that trade in Pennsylvania and played a role in the construction of the homes and buildings of Bethlehem.
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David Tannenberg designed the steeple of the Moravian Church in Lititz.
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In late 1757 or early 1758, David Tannenberg began learning the craft of organ building from Johann Gottlob Klemm.
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David Tannenberg moved to Lititz, Pennsylvania, with his family in 1765.
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David Tannenberg worked out of the house until his death.
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David Tannenberg was active in the collegium musicum of Lititz as an organist and string player of the Moravian congregation there and began building organs for Lutheran, Reformed and Moravian Churches.
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David Tannenberg was a good performer on the violin and a capable tenor singer.
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David Tannenberg did not build any organs for the next three years.
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David Tannenberg was tuning an organ he had constructed at the Lutheran Church in York, PA when he suffered an episode of apoplexy.
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David Tannenberg fell from the bench, struck his head, and was injured.