In 1855 he bought out the Ducroquet firm in Paris and three years later reorganized the company as the Société Anonyme pour la Fabrication des Orgues, Établissement Merklin-Schütze.
In 1855 he bought out the Ducroquet firm in Paris and began to work almost exclusively in France. Three years later, he reorganized the company as the Société Anonyme pour la Fabrication des Orgues, Établissement Merklin-Schütze.