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.
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]
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.
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]