Arp Schnitger (born 1648-07-02 in Schmalenfleth, buried 1719-07-28) was a highly skilled and influential German organ builder. He was primarily active in Northern Europe, especially the Netherlands and Germany. 1648 (MDCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Brake (IPA /brα:kə/) is the district seat of Wesermarsch district in the administrative region (Regierungsbezirk) of Weser-Ems in Lower Saxony in northern Germany. ... // Events January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel Prussia conducts Europes first systematic census Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused... is the 209th day of the year (210th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany The organ is a keyboard instrument played using one or more manuals and a pedalboard. ... Northern Europe Northern Europe is the northern part of the European continent. ...
Notable examples still in use include the organ at St. Pancratius Church, Hamburg-Neuenfelde[1], originally completed in 1688, his largest two-manual instrument. Organs like this are credited with inspiring the renaissance in organ building during the late 20th Century, with its return to mechanical actions, known as tracker actions and smaller instruments, as distinct from the Victorian trend in symphonic organs. Neuenfelde is a town located in the Hamburg-Harburg district of Hamburg, near the Lower Saxony border of Germany. ... Tracker action is a term used in reference to pipe organs to indicate a mechanical linkage between the key pressed by the organist and the valve that allows air to flow into pipe(s) of the corresponding note. ...
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Arp-Schnitger-Orgel in Bülkau. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 440 pixelsFull resolution (1647 × 906 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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References
Peggy Kelley Reinburg (1982). Arp Schnitger, organ builder; catalyst for the centuries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-30927-1.
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ArpSchnitger, who was born in 1648 as a son of a carpenters family near Bremen, has built more than 100 new instruments in Germany and the Netherlands, delivering single instruments even to England, Russia, Spain, Portugal and Brazil.
Schnitger came from the Weser Marshlands in Oldenburg County where he was at first apprenticed as a carpenter to his father.
Schnitger was not only closely connected to the village of Neuenfelde as the location of his subsequent workshop, but also through his first wife, Gertrud Otte, whom he married in 1684.
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