József Angster
József Angster (7 July 1834 – 9 June 1918) was a Germans of Hungary, Hungarian German Organ (music), organ-making master. He was the founder of the Angster dynasty, one of Central Europe's most sought after in the craft, and an important figure in Hungarian applied arts history. Origins Angster was born at Kácsfalu, in present-day Croatia into a Danube Swabians family who had travelled to Hungary from Michelstadt in the 1790s. He wrote his memoirs in German, they were translated in his old age into Hungarian, he later said that in speaking Hungarian he was a beginner, and in writing it he was an unschooled senior. Studies He studied cabinet making then travelled to Timișoara, Temesvár (today Timișoara, Romania), and worked in Germany. He studied organ manufacturing in Vienna at the Titz factory and from 1863 to 1866 worked in Paris under Aristide Cavaillé-Coll where he also worked on the organs of Cologny castle, Notre Dame de Paris, Notre Dame and Sainte-Trinité, Paris, ...
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