Gedler

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In the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, the Gedler family in Füssen practiced the violin making trade for four generations .

genealogy

1st generation

Norbert Gedler * May 25, 1692 in Füssen - † February 8, 1729 in Würzburg

married to:

  1. 1716 Klara White
  2. 1728 Anna Regina Hufnagel

II generation

Johann Anton Gedler * December 2, 1725 in Würzburg - † February 21, 1790 in Füssen

married to:

  1. 1752 Katharina Prinz
  2. 1763 Maria Barbara Niggl
  3. 1764 Maria Anna Lemmbach

III. generation

Joseph Benedikt Gedler * March 22, 1755 in Füssen - † March 27, 1830 in Füssen

married to:

  1. 1783 Theresia Maple
  2. 1789 Monika Schmid
  3. 1815 Kreszentia Berchtold

IV generation

Joseph Anton Gedler * August 10, 1784 in Füssen - †? in Linz

Norbert Gedler

Norbert Gedler (born May 25, 1692 in Füssen - † February 8, 1729 in Würzburg) was born as the son of the carpenter Matthias Gedler and his wife Eva, née Hollmayr, in Füssen, where he also learned the violin making trade. In 1716 he married Klara Weiß, a merchant's daughter from Füssen. At the age of 30, Norbert Gedler moved to Würzburg to take up the vacant position of court violin maker. Economic hardship, illness and death were the fate of the Gedler family within a few years. His wife Clara died in 1727, and half a year later Norbert Gedler married Anna Regina Hufnagel. But just under a year later, Norbert Gedler died. Within four years, the death of a family of nine allowed only two to survive: the second wife and son from his first marriage, Johann Anton. This then went back to Füssen. The stepmother Anna Regina married the following year with the Füssen violin maker Johann Georg Fischer, who continued the tradition of Füssen violin making at the Würzburger Hof.

Johann Anton Gedler

Fate hit the boy Johann Anton Gedler (born December 2, 1725 in Würzburg - † February 21, 1790 in Füssen) hard. His mother, Clara Gedler, née Weiß from Füssen, died at the age of two, and after 1½ years his death also tore away his father, the court violin maker Norbert Gedler. And he came to his cousin, the violin maker Simpert Niggel, to be nursed in Füssen, and later he also learned the violin making trade from him. A very special specialty of Johann Anton Gedler were the "wave violins" that made him famous. So had Ludwig van Beethoven a "wave Viola" by Johann Anton Gedler that in the Beethoven House in Bonn is seen.

Joseph Benedikt Gedler

In March 1755 one of the last important violin makers in Füssen, Joseph Benedikt Gedler (* March 22, 1755 in Füssen - † March 27, 1830 in Füssen), was born in Füssen as the son of the violin maker Johann Anton and his wife Maria Katharina Gedler. Presumably Joseph Benedikt was an apprentice to his father.

Like his fellow violin makers and the craftsmen in the city in general, he had great difficulty earning a living for his family with his craft during the Napoleonic Wars. His small, self-sufficient farm provided existential support. Joseph Benedikt Gedler was considered an excellent violin maker. His death is reported in the town chronicle of 1861 as one of two mentioned events in 1830: On March 27 of this year, JB Gedler, the last of the famous Füssen lute makers, also died. The widow Kreszentia Gedler thereupon returned the trade license for his violin making trade.

Joseph Anton Gedler

The couple Joseph Benedikt and Theresia Gedler had their son Joseph Anton (born August 10, 1784 in Füssen -?) On August 10, 1784. Joseph Anton, also named Joseph Benedikt in the later files, also learned his father's craft. As early as 1803, in the lists of unmarried bourgeois sons, he was reported as an absent violin maker in Linz at the age of 19 . And in the family description from 1829 he is entered with absent, ignorant where . After that, the news runs over him.

literature

  • Richard Bletschacher : The lute and violin makers in the Füssen region . 2nd improved edition. Hofmeister, Hofheim am Taunus 1991, ISBN 3-87350-004-3 .
  • Walter Hamma: Violin maker of the German school of the 17th to 19th centuries . Volume 1: A - K . Schneider, Tutzing 1986, ISBN 3-7952-0490-9 .
  • Dieter Kirsch: Lute and violin maker from Füssen in Würzburg. Lecture given on the occasion of the general meeting of the Society for Bavarian Music History e. V. in Füssen on July 8, 1995 . In: Musik in Bayern 51, 1995, ISSN  0937-583X , pp. 11–34.
  • Adolf Layer : On the history of the Gedler family of violin makers in Füssen . In: Alt Füssen 1982, ISSN  0939-2467 , pp. 93-95.
  • Adolf Layer: The Allgäu lute and violin makers. A chapter of Swabian cultural achievement for Europe . Verlag der Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft , Augsburg 1978, ( Publications of the Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Commission for Bavarian State History Series 1: Studies on the History of Bavarian Swabia 15, ISSN  0568-434X ).
  • Leo von Lütgendorff : The violin and lute makers from the Middle Ages to the present . Supplementary volume by Thomas Drescher. Schneider, Tutzing 1990, ISBN 3-7952-0616-2 .