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Heinrich Theodore Heberlein Jr. (1843-1910) was a German violin maker from the Vogtland region that straddles modern day Germany and the Czech Republic. He was the son of Carl August Heberlein (1805-1879) and the grandson of the founder of the family dynasty Johann Gottlob Heberlein (1782-1856).
Simon Straub (1662 - 1730) was a German violin maker and luthier. He was born in Friedenweiler and spent most of his life in Langenordnach. Simon Straub is considered one of the most significant violin makers of the Alemannische Schule (Alemannic school) in Black Forest. He was a member of the Straub-Dynasty, a family of luthiers for 9 generations.
Anton Wallerstein (28 September 1813 – 26 March 1892) [1] was a German violinist and composer, a prolific writer of popular dances and songs. Wallerstein was born to poor parents in Dresden. He played the violin from an early age; in 1829 he entered the Dresden Court Orchestra, and in 1832 the Court Orchestra of Hanover, leaving the orchestra ...
However, in the context of the concerto itself (and evidenced in the text of the folk song), the meaning programmatically seems to refer to a wandering medieval minstrel, or organ grinder, who plays on an instrument such as the hurdy-gurdy (and providing embellishments and rhapsodies on the folk tunes), which has a handle shaped as a swan's ...
In 1960 Wilhelm Brückner took over the violin making company, which had been founded in Erfurt in 1897 [1] by his grandfather of the same name (also Wilhelm Brückner). ). Before Wilhelm Brückner the Elder (1874 to 1925 – from a traditional Vogtland violin making dynasty) settled in Erfurt, he had received training from the violin makers Giuseppe Fiorini and Alfred Stelzner, [2] on which ...
Walter Hamma (22 September 1916 – 11 August 1988) was a German violin maker. His father, Fridolin Hamma, was an influential violin maker. Walter Hamma was pupil of the violin making school in Mittenwald 1933-1935. He worked with Ferdinand Jaura in Vienna and later for Caressa & Français in Paris. During the Second World War, the workshop in ...
The following year became director of a private music school and worked as a choral conductor. From 1927 to 1936 he taught violin at the Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig (State Conservatory of Leipzig). [2] Küchler wrote textbooks on violin technique and composed instructive pieces for the violin including several student concertos.
Spiegel im Spiegel (lit. Tooltip literal translation 'mirror(s) in the mirror') is a composition by Arvo Pärt written in 1978, just before his departure from Estonia. The piece is in the tintinnabular style, wherein a melodic voice, operating over diatonic scales, and tintinnabular voice, operating within a triad on the tonic, accompany each other.