2004-10-30/2019-10-17 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Son of Nicolaas Van Hirtum (1752-1810), an organbuilder. Apprenticed with father. Partner with his brother, Bernard Petrus in Gebroeders van Hirtum 1810-17. Built at least 2 organs on his own. Relocated to Amsterdam, Netherlands c. 1817; he was in St. Louis, Missouri, 1818, as a music teacher, and organbuilder. Sources: Frans Jespers, Ad van Sleuwen, De Orgelmakers van Hirtum (Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands, 1976). Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 187. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.
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