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16-452: Schnitger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arp Schnitger (1648–1719), German pipe organ builder Hans Schnitger (1915–2013), Dutch field hockey player Lara Schnitger (born 1969), Dutch-American sculptor See also [ edit ] 29203 Schnitger , a main-belt asteroid Schnitger organ (Hamburg) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

32-474: A Swedish organ building consortium, has even gone so far as to build an exact copy of a Schnitger organ for research purposes. case, prospect, 18 stops Gottfried Fritzsche Gottfried Fritzsche was born in Meissen in 1578. He was the son of goldsmith Jobst Fritzsche (died 1585), and began his professional life learning and working in his father's craft. His grandfather Johannes Fritzsche (1508-1586)

48-484: A journeyman. In 1682, Schnitger and his workshop moved to Hamburg . In 1708, he was appointed organ builder of the Prussian court. In 1684, Schnitger was married to Gertrude Otte (1665-1707). His sons Franz Caspar and Johann Jürgen Schnitger trained with their father and continued his work after his death. His burial was recorded in the parish of St. Pancratiuskirche at Neuenfelde-Hamburg on 28 July 1719. Schnitger

64-576: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Arp Schnitger Arp Schnitger (2 July 1648 – 28 July 1719 (buried)) was an influential Northern German organ builder . Considered the paramount manufacturer of his time, Schnitger built or rebuilt over 150 organs. He was primarily active in Northern Europe , especially the Netherlands and Germany , where a number of his instruments still survive. Schnitger

80-577: Is generally credited with reintroducing them to modern listeners. More recently, Schnitger's organs can be heard on several recordings by German organist Harald Vogel . Schnitger's instruments in Groningen, Uithuizen, Noordbroek and Nieuw Scheemda were featured in the documentary Martinikerk Rondeau , in which Jürgen Ahrend , Cor Edskes and Bernhardt H. Edskes detail Schnitger's life and demonstrate his working methods. Schnitger's organs have also served as inspiration for many modern builders; GOArt ,

96-515: The simbel installed by Fritzsche in 1635 in the organ of the St. James' Church, Hamburg was the first of its kind in northern Germany. He also liked to use secondary stops such as tremulant and "drum", which do not yet appear in Scherer's work, and Effect stops such as "Cuckoo", "Birdsong", and "Nightingale". While hammered lead pipes had been the rule in northern Germany until then, Fritzsche planed

112-415: The surname Schnitger . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schnitger&oldid=1150056806 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

128-508: The Younger in Hamburg upon Scherer's death in 1631, taking over the Scherer family's organ business. He remained there until his death in 1638. His first marriage to a woman who is no longer known by name produced three sons and three daughters, including the organ builder Hans Christoph Fritzsche . Through his second marriage in 1629 to Margarete née Ringemuth, widowed Rist, he became

144-619: The early twentieth century, with a return to tracker action and smaller, more cohesive instruments, as distinct from the late-Romantic trend of extremely large symphonic organs. In particular, the organ at the Jacobikirche, Hamburg, played a pivotal role in the organ reform movement beginning in 1925, as a series of conferences taking place at historical organ sites in Germany and Alsace was inaugurated there. A number of Schnitger's organs were featured on recordings by E. Power Biggs , who

160-440: The main case; well-developed principal choruses in each division with abundant reeds, flutes, and mutation stops; and meantone temperament . All of these features could be found on North German organs prior to Schnitger's activity; Schnitger's genius lay in his ability to synthesize these elements into a prototypical style of organ building, and in his prolific output. The latter was made possible by his good business sense: Schnitger

176-470: The same stop family but with contrasting scales (wide and narrow) in one work or chose unusual foot pitches . In the Brustwerk and pedal he regularly used one-foot voices, which were still unknown with Scherer. Also characteristic is his double zill , which takes the place of Scherer's high-lying Scharff, as well as the use of various aliquotregister  [ de ] as single voices. For example,

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192-583: The stepfather of the poet Johann Rist . His pupils (and later sons-in-law) were Friederich Stellwagen and Tobias Brunner . Fritzsche stood on the threshold from the Renaissance to the early Baroque . He further developed Brabant organ building and introduced numerous innovations, for example, on the Zungenregister the rackett regals such as dulzian , regal , sordun and the long-beaked crumhorn . Fritzsche not infrequently placed stops of

208-714: Was born near Schmalenfleth in Oldenburg , Germany , and was baptized on 9 July 1648 in Golzwarden . The exact date of Schnitger's birth is unknown; the scholar Gustav Fock hypothesises it was on 2 July 1648, a week before his baptism. Schnitger was born into a family of woodworkers and wood carvers. He was apprenticed at the age of 18. Between 1666 and 1671, Schnitger studied organ building with his cousin Berendt Huss ( c. 1630-1676) in Glückstadt and worked as

224-750: Was cathedral syndic in Meissen. Before 1603 Fritzsche probably learned organ building from Johann Lange (sometimes given as Hans Lange) in Kamenz. Fritzsche was an organ builder in Meissen from 1604 until 1612 when he relocated to Dresden. There he was appointed court organ builder to the Elector of Saxony around 1614. From 1619 to 1627, he worked in Wolfenbüttel and from 1628 to 1629 in Celle, before coming to Ottensen in 1629. He succeeded Hans Scherer

240-431: Was one of the first builders to use cost-cutting measures on a large scale to ensure the affordability of organs for small village churches. One of Schnitger's landmark instruments, the organ at St. Jacobikirche, Hamburg, was a renovation and enlargement of an instrument previously rebuilt in 1636 by Gottfried Fritzsche (1578–1638). Organs like these are credited with inspiring the renaissance in organ building during

256-645: Was one of the most prolific builders of his time, having built approximately 95 new instruments, rebuilt about 30, and repaired or renovated another 30. He ran several shops and had a team in Magdeburg , in Bremen and in Groningen . His organ designs typify the essential North German organ: multiple divisions, usually with a rückpositif (division on the gallery rail, behind the player's back); large, independent pedal divisions, often placed in towers on either side of

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