Weber, Thomas Ferdinand

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1784–1795

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: organ
Address(es): 

68 Marlboro Street, 1787–89
75 Marlboro Street, 1790 [1795?]

Details: 

Son of Ferdinand Weber, Thomas Ferdinand assisted his mother (Rachel Weber) after his father's death in 1784 and continued the business after his mother's death in 1789 at least until 1795 (Boydell, 'The Organ of Trinity College Chapel, Dublin').

Assistant: Jones?

[Details differ according to sources. Flood states that Thomas 'continued the business of piano manufacture after his father's death in 1784', De Valera states that he was a harpsichord maker and did not build organs but the Dublin Directories list him from 1787 as an 'organ builder'. Note: Rachel and Thomas Ferdinand Weber are listed at different address in the Dublin Directories between 1787 and 1789 (Rachel as a harpsichord maker and Thomas Ferdinand as an organ builder), Thomas Ferdinand moving to his mother's address following her death in 1789.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Tuned and Maintained

  • Organ: St Michan's Church, 1784–87 (Boydell, 'St Michan's')
  • Organ: Trinity College Dublin Chapel, 1784–87, 1795 (Boydell, 'The Organ of Trinity College Chapel, Dublin')
    • See Also: 

    Jones
    Weber, Ferdinand
    Weber, Rachel

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Dublin Harpsichord and Pianoforte Makers of the Eighteenth Century', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th ser., 39.2 (1909), 137–45 (p. 144)

    Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 32)

    De Valera, Terry, 'Two Eighteenth-Century Musical Instrument Makers', Dublin Historical Record, 36.4 (September 1983), 122–31 (pp. 123, 125–26)

    Boydell, Barra, 'John Baptiste Cuvillie, Ferdinand Weber, and the Organ of Trinity College Chapel, Dublin', The Organ, 72.283 (1992), 15–27 (p. 23)

    Boydell, Barra, 'St Michan's Church, Dublin: the Installation of the Organ in 1725 and the Duties of the Organist', Journal of the British Institute of Organ Studies, 19 (1995), 74–96 (pp. 89–90)

    Last Update: 19-09-2013