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Swiss organ builder (1710–1785)
The Snetzler organ case from 1769 in
Beverley Minster
John Snetzler (or Schnetzler ) was an
organ builder of Swiss origin, who worked mostly in England.
[1] Born in
Schaffhausen in 1710,
[2] he trained with the firm of Egedacher in
Passau and came to London about 1741. When he retired in 1781, his business continued and ended up with
Thomas Elliot . Snetzler died in Schaffhausen on 28 September 1785.
List of works
Clare College, Cambridge has a functioning chamber organ by John Snetzler (1755) acquired from John Bibby of Winchester in 1985 and restored in 2016. It had been in the Mission Church of St James,
Heysham , and before that in the collection of a 19th-century musicologist, J Fuller Maitland, of
Borwick Hall ,
Lancashire . At one time it was in
Shaw House, Berkshire .
Belle Skinner Collection,
Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut, 1742 (restored 1983 by Noel Mander)
[3]
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_606035
St Saviour's Chapel,
Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Norwich , Norfolk 1745
[4]
St Andrew's
Qualified Chapel , Carrubbers' Close, Edinburgh 1747, now in
University of Glasgow Concert Hall
[5]
Fulneck Moravian Church , Leeds 1748
St Margaret's, King's Lynn
[6] 1754
St Paul's Church, Sheffield 1755
St Nicholas's Church, Whitehaven 1755 – removed to
Arlecdon Church in 1904, where it survives in a heavily altered state.
St Leonard's Church ,
Swithland , Leicestershire, 1756
Duke of Bedford's musical gallery
[7] 1756, now St Mary the Virgin,
Hillington , Norfolk
[8]
Holy Trinity Church, Hull (now
Hull Minster ) 1756 and 1758
[9]
Chapel of St John , St John Street,
Edinburgh , 1757; the organ purchased by Lodge Canongate Kilwinning No2, is featured in a picture of Burns being made Poet Laureate of the lodge. It is still in regular, hand-pumped use.
[10]
Buckingham Palace 1760, now
Eton College Chapel
[11]
Buckingham Palace 1760, now
Chapel Royal ,
St James's Palace
[12]
Unitarian Church,
Hastings , 1760 (restored 2010 by Matthew Copley) BA
The
New Room, Bristol 1761 (installed around 1930, previously elsewhere)
Congregational Church of
South Dennis, Massachusetts , United States, built in 1762, installed in 1854
Concert Hall (Boston, Massachusetts) , 1763–1774
St Laurence Church, Ludlow , Shropshire, 1764
[13]
Peterhouse, Cambridge 1765
Halifax Parish Church 1766 (
William Herschel first organist)
Octagon Chapel, Bath 1767 (
William Herschel first organist)
[14]
St Michael's Episcopal Church ,
Charleston , South Carolina, USA 1768 (Case only; new organ 1994 by Kenneth Jones of Bray, Ireland)
Beverley Minster 1769
St Malachy's Parish Church,
Hillsborough, County Down 1772–1773
Leicester Cathedral 1774 (Modified 1873 and 1930, some pipework remains)
[15]
National Museum Cardiff 1774, given by
Watkin Williams-Wynn
St Mary's Church, Nottingham 1777
Rotherham Minster 1777
St Anne's Parish Church, Belfast 1781
St Mary and All Saints Church,
Sculthorpe, Norfolk
Church of St Andrew,
Blickling , Norfolk
Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield (1756, destroyed by fire 1961
[16] )
Sources
References
^ Dictionary of National Biography
^ Stephen Bicknell, The History of the English Organ , 1999,
^
"Belle Skinner Collection, Yale University" . Organ Historical Society. Retrieved 3 April 2014 .
^
"Norfolk Norwich, Cathedral of the Holy and Und'd Trinity [N05936]" . Npor.org.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2014 .
^
"Concert Hall, University of Glasgow" . Gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2014 .
^ The organ: its history and construction.
Edward John Hopkins ,
Edward Francis Rimbault 1870
^ unproven
^
"Norfolk Hillington, St Mary the Virgin [N06361]" . Npor.org.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2014 .
^ Work on an existing instrument.
^
Lodge Canongate Kilwinning No 2; The Organ
^
"The National Pipe Organ Register" . npor.rcm.ac.uk . Archived from
the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2022 .
^
"Welcome to nginx!" . Archived from
the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2009 .
^
"Shropshire Ludlow, St Laurence [N04633]" . Npor.org.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2014 .
^ Lubbock, Constance A. (31 October 2013).
The Herschel Chronicle, Constance A. Lubbock, 2013 (first published 1933) p. 40 .
ISBN
9781107650015 . Retrieved 4 April 2016 .
^
"The Organs of Leicester Cathedral" . Archived from
the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016 .
^
"The Derbyshire Times remembers the Spire fire" . Derbyshire Times . 22 December 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2017 .
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