Heinrich Edmund Schulze (26 March 1824 - 13 July 1878) was a German

organ builder Organ building is the profession of designing, building, restoring and maintaining pipe organs. The organ builder usually receives a commission to design an organ with a particular disposition of stops, manuals, and actions, creates a d ...

. He was the last of five generations of the Schulze family to build organs, starting with Hans Elias Schulze (1688–1762), Edmund's great-great-grandfather. He died of tuberculosis.Roger Allen (1980) ''The Musical Times'', Vol. 121, No. 1651, pp. 579-582 The Tyne Dock Schulze at Ellesmere Schulze exhibited an organ in England at the Great Exhibition of 1851. A number of English commissions followed on from this. Among his celebrated organs are one in St George's Minster, Doncaster and one built for

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in 1869 and later transferred first to St. Peter's Church, Harrogate,

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and then to St. Bartholomew's Church, Armley,

in 1879, where it is still in use. The organ originally in the church of St Mary,

Tyne Dock Tyne Dock is a neighbourhood within the town of South Shields, North East England, on the south bank of the River Tyne. It takes its name from the large dock on the river which was opened in 1859 by the North Eastern Railway (and acquired by th ...

, was transferred to

Ellesmere College (''Striving for one's country'') , established = 1879 , song = ''Jerusalem'' , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding schoolDay School , religious_affiliation = Church of England , president = , head_label ...

in 1980. Ellesmere's Schulze has its own Facebook page called "The St. Mary Tyne Dock Schulze Organ Trust"

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German pipe organ builders 1824 births 1878 deaths {{Germany-music-bio-stub