Schnitger, Franz Caspar (1693-1729)

Title
Schnitger, Franz Caspar (1693-1729)
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Knijff, Jan-Piet
Editor
Editor(s): Douglas E Bush and Richard Kassel
Type of document
Entry In Reference Work
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
New York, United States of America
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:8057
Abstract
Dutch organbuilder of German birth, son of Arp SCHNITGER. Franz Caspar was born on 15 October 1693. He worked in his father's shop and helped to build the organ in Weener (1709-10). After their father's death, Franz Caspar and his brother Johann Jürgen Schnitger (chris. 4 Sep 1690, d. after 1733) completed the four-manual organ for Zwolle, Grote of St. Michaelskerk (1718-21, extant). Although the instrument received much praise, it was also criticized for not being able to combine the Vox Humana with the Quintadena and Baarpijp (a much-favored Dutch registration) and for its use of unequal temperament (after Werckmeister), considered less good than the meantone temperament still widely used in the Netherlands at the time.
Link
Citation
The Organ: An Encyclopedia, v.3 of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, p. 498-498
ISBN
0415941741
9780415941747
Start page
498
End page
498

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