John Snetzler
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
[edit]- Belle Skinner Collection, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1742 (restored 1983 by Noel Mander)[3]
- 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[7]
- Chamber organ Clare College, Cambridge 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.
- 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
- Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield 1756 (destroyed by fire 1961[8])
- Duke of Bedford's musical gallery[9] 1756, now St Mary the Virgin, Hillington, Norfolk[10]
- Holy Trinity Church, Hull (now Hull Minster) 1756 and 1758[11]
- 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.[12]
- Buckingham Palace 1760, now Eton College Chapel[13]
- Buckingham Palace 1760, now Chapel Royal, St James's Palace[14]
- Unitarian Church, Hastings, 1760 (restored 2010 by Matthew Copley) BA
- Chamber organ for Samuel Bard of Philadelphia and New York 1761, acquired by the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. 1969[15]
- The New Room, Bristol 1761 (installed around 1930, previously elsewhere)
- Church of St Andrew, Blickling, Norfolk 1762
- 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[16]
- Peterhouse, Cambridge 1765
- St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (Church of Ireland) 1765 (sold in 1838[17] to the Armagh Music Society in the Tontine, 1849 transferred to Donegall Square Methodist Chapel, Belfast and destroyed on the opening night by fire.[18])
- Halifax Parish Church 1766 (William Herschel first organist)
- Octagon Chapel, Bath 1767 (William Herschel first organist)[19]
- 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 Modwen's, Burton upon Trent 1771[20]
- St Malachy's Parish Church, Hillsborough, County Down 1772–1773
- St Martin's Church, Leicester 1774[21] (Modified 1873 and 1930, some pipework remains)[22]
- National Museum Cardiff 1774, given by Watkin Williams-Wynn
- St Mary's Church, Andover, Hampshire 1775 moved to Wesley Methodist Church, Newquay, Cornwall 1937[23] (now destroyed)
- St Mary's Church, Nottingham 1777 (some pipework survives in St Andrew's Church, Nottingham)
- Rotherham Minster 1777
- St Anne's Parish Church, Belfast 1781
- St Mary and All Saints Church, Sculthorpe, Norfolk
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Sources
[edit]- National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR) at the British Institute of Organ Studies
- The Organ, William Leslie Sumner
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ "Lynn". Ipswich Journal. England. 9 March 1754. Retrieved 4 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "The Derbyshire Times remembers the Spire fire". Derbyshire Times. 22 December 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Snetzler Pipe Organ". National Museum of American History. Smithsonian. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "Shropshire Ludlow, St Laurence [N04633]". Npor.org.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
- ^ "Armagh Cathedral Organ". Dublin Evening Post. Ireland. 19 June 1838. Retrieved 4 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Destruction by Fire of the New Wesleyan Church, Donegall Square East". Belfast Newsletter. Northern Ireland. 4 September 1849. Retrieved 4 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Lubbock, Constance A. (31 October 2013). The Herschel Chronicle, Constance A. Lubbock, 2013 (first published 1933) p. 40. ISBN 9781107650015. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "Derby". Derby Mercury. England. 23 August 1771. Retrieved 4 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Extract of a Letter from Leicester, Sept 23". Northampton Mercury. England. 26 September 1774. Retrieved 4 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "The Organs of Leicester Cathedral". Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "Music and Religion. Newquay Dedication of Chapel Organ". West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. England. 4 March 1937. Retrieved 4 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
