August Riechers

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August Riechers around 1890 (?)

Karl August Heinrich Riechers (born March 8, 1836 in Hanover , † January 4, 1893 in Berlin ) was a German violin and bow maker .

Life

August Riechers was born on March 8, 1836 in Hanover as the son of a musician. At the age of 13 he began an apprenticeship with a piano manufacturer, but broke it off after two years to begin training as a violin maker in Markneukirchen in the company of Carl Friedrich Ficker, which at that time was already being carried out by his son Carl Wilhelm August Ficker was directed. This was followed by a longer employment as an assistant to Ludwig Bausch senior in Leipzig . In 1862 he settled in Hanover and founded his own violin making workshop. At the request of his friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim , he moved to Berlin in 1872. There he built and looked after instruments by Joachim and his students, such as the Stradivarius violin "King George". Riechers died in his Berlin apartment on January 4, 1893, shortly before the publication of his book The Violin and its Construction .

Works

  • The violin and its construction , Franz Wunder, Göttingen 1893
    • English translation under the title The Violin and the Art of its Construction. A Treatise on the Stradivarius Violin , Göttingen 1895 ( digitized )
    • New edition by Otto Bahlmann, Schuberth 1955

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willibald Leo Freiherr von Lütgendorff: The violin and lute makers from the Middle Ages to the present . Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1922.
  2. ^ John Dilworth, The Brompton's Book of Violin & Bow Makers.
  3. ↑ The book appeared in several editions (including 1912, 1922, 1940 and 1950), in 1895 also in English translation.
personal data
SURNAME Riechers, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riechers, Karl August Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violin and bow maker
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1893
Place of death Berlin