Johann Konrad Stoppel

Johann Konrad Stoppel (born October 23, 1641 in Waldshut ; † before 1714 presumably there) was a violin maker of the so-called Alemannic school and founded a local violin-making tradition that extended into the 19th century.

Life

Johann Konrad Stoppel, also known as "Hans Conradt Stobbel" in contemporary spelling, lived and worked as a violin maker in the town of Waldshut in Austria . After the comparative research of Olga Adelmann, Johann Konrad Stoppel learned violin making at about the same time as Franz Straub with Joseph Meyer in Geroldshofstetten near Grafenhausen . A bass violin made by Stoppel in the Historical Museum of Basel is signed with the label "Hans Conradt Stobbel, Gygenmacher in Wien / Anno 1666. A stay in Vienna is not guaranteed. The instrument is considered to be the earliest signed work of the Alemannic violin making school.

family

Johann Konrad Stoppel was born in Waldshut in 1641 as the son of Andreas Stoppel (1597–1679) and Elisabeth Tröndlin from there. Johann Konrad Stoppel married Elisabeth Lußmann in 1679. The marriage had eight children. The sons Konrad Stoppel, born 1680, and Johann Stoppel, born 1689, continued the violin-making trade of their father, but did not achieve the same quality. Stoppel was mentioned in writing for the last time in 1712. From 1714 his wife Elisabeth was called a widow.

swell

• Olga Adelmann: The Alemannic school of violin making in the 17th century in the southern Black Forest and in Switzerland . 2nd Edition. State Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-922378-15-3 .
• Olga Adelmann: The discovery of the Alemannic school p. 286. ( PDF )