Franz Caspar Schnitger, baptized on October 15, 1693, in Neuenfelde and buried on March 5, 1729, in Zwolle, was a prominent German organ builder who continued his career in the Netherlands, particularly after the death of his father, the famous organ builder Arp Schnitger, in 1719. Together with his brother Johann Jürgen, Franz Caspar moved their father’s workshop to Zwolle, where they completed the significant organ project at Sint-Michaëlskerk that Arp had planned. This move marked the continuation and eventual evolution of the Schnitger family’s legacy in organ building outside Germany.

Franz Caspar’s personal life intertwined closely with his professional activities. He married Anna Margreta Debbert, daughter of a councilman from Usedom, in January 1720 in Hamburg, and they had four children. After his early death, his workshop was taken over by his master apprentice Albertus Antonius Hinsz, who married his widow in 1732, ensuring the continuation of the Schnitger organ-building tradition. This lineage extended through Hinsz’s stepson, Frans Casper Snitger the younger, and later through Heinrich Hermann Freytag and his son, Herman Eberhard Freytag, sustaining the Schnitger organ-building heritage in the Netherlands well into the mid-19th century, even as it dwindled in Germany following the deaths of Arp Schnitger and his immediate successors.

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