Arp Schnitger, Organ Builder Organ Itinerary

Ortgies, Ibo,1960Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Göteborg Organ Art Center (author)

These place marks for (Google Earth) contain the places of organs, that Arp Schnitger (16481719) built new, enlarged (marked EW), rebuilt (UB), or repaired (Rep.; only more substantial repairs). The countries (according to modern borders) in/for which Schnitger organs have built or whereto they were sold, given as a gift ... include Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, UK (England), Russia, Spain, Portugal, Brazil Schnitger's output is here grouped by decades 16741679 16801689 16901699 17001709 17101719 In case of instruments which were destroyed (not seldom also the churches were destroyed) the original location was tried to be traced back as precisely as possible. Otherwise the place mark leads to the church in which they have been or are still today. Those of his instruments, which have later been placed in other churches in other towns, are marked as in the following case: The organ, nowadays in Grasberg (near Bremen), was originally built for the church of the Waisenhaus (orphanage) in Hamburg: You'll find the place mark in Hamburg (indicating whereto the organ was moved): Hamburg, Waisenhaus, 1684 (--> Grasberg) In Grasberg you'll find the clue for the origin of the organ. Grasberg (<-- Hamburg-Waisenhaus 1694) House organs (like in Stade or Hamburg, for example) were placed in the middle of the town (in Hamburg for example they are in the lake "Alster")

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