List of important violin makers
This list of important violin makers gives an overview of important violin makers from different regions and epochs . The instruments they build have often been discussed in detail several times in the specialist literature.
16th to 18th century
Italy
- Gasparo Bertolotti (Gasparo da Salò) (1540–1609), violin maker in Brescia
- Giovanni Paolo Maggini (1580– approx. 1632), violin maker in Brescia
- Valentino Siani (1595–1672), violin maker in Florence
- Francesco Ruggeri (1630–1698), violin maker in Cremona
- Giambattista Rogeri (1650–1730) and Pietro Giacomo Rogeri (1665–1724), violin makers in Brescia
- Matteo Goffriller (1659–1742), violin maker in Venice
- Antonio Stradivari (1648–1737), violin maker in Cremona
- Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1711–1786), violin maker in Turin
- Domenico Montagnana (1686–1750), violin maker in Venice
- Tommaso Balestrieri (1720–1788 / 1790), violin maker in Cremona and Mantua
- Carlo Bergonzi (1683–1747), violin maker in Cremona
- as well as numerous other members of the Amati , Bergonzi, Balestrieri, Gagliano , Grancino , Guarneri , Guadagnini , Rogeri, Testore, Tieffenbrucker families ...
Germany
- David Tecchler (1666–1747), worked mainly in Italy
- Caspar Tieffenbrucker (* 1514 near Füssen, † 1570 Lyon) was one of the earliest representatives of violin making, another branch of the family settled in Italy.
- The shock family from Füssen
- Matthias Klotz (1653–1742), lute and violin maker, founder of Mittenwald violin making, and his descendants
- The Neuner family , violin makers from Mittenwald
- Leopold Widhalm (1722–1776), violin maker in Nuremberg
- Caspar Hopf (also: Hopff; 1650–1711), is considered the first violin maker in Klingenthal
- The Klemm family from Randeck established the name of the place as the oldest violin-making village in the Ore Mountains
- The Straub family (17th - 18th centuries) was the most important violin-making dynasty in the Black Forest for ten generations.
Austria
- Jakob Stainer (1618–1683), violin maker in Absam, until after 1800 his instruments north of the Alps had a better reputation than the Italian ones.
- Johann Georg Thir (1710–1781) and his son Matthias Thir (1736–1806), violin makers in Vienna
- Franz Geissenhof (1753–1821), violin maker in Vienna
- Johann Martin Stoss (1778–1838), violin maker from Füssen, later in Vienna, came from the important violin-making family Stoss
- Matthias Alban (1634–1712), Tyrolean violin and lute maker
- Andreas Ferdinand Mayr (1693–1764), court lute and violin maker in Salzburg
France
- Gasparo Duiffopruggar (before 1575 – after 1582), son of Caspar Tieffenbrucker, lute and violin maker in Paris and Lyon
- numerous good violin makers in Paris and Lorraine, especially from the area around Mirecourt and Nancy . The Vuillaume family from Mirecourt in particular provides numerous violin makers.
Netherlands
- Hendrik Jacobs (1629-1704)
- Pieter Rombouts (1667-1740)
- the members of the Cuypers family (Kuypers) in the 18th and 19th centuries
Poland
- Marcin Groblicz (around 1540–1609) (probably a pupil of Gasparo da Salò)
19th century
Italy
- Lorenzo Storioni (1744–1816), violin maker in Cremona
- Giovanni Battista Ceruti (1756–1817), violin maker in Cremona
- Giuseppe Antonio Ceruti (1785–1860), Italian violin maker
- Enrico Ceruti (1806–1883), Italian violin maker
- Giovanni Francesco Pressenda (1777-1854), violin maker in Turin
Germany
- Wilhelm Busch (1861–1929), violin maker in Cologne , Siegen , Siegburg , Duisburg , Bochum
- Louis Noebe (1843–1931), violin maker in Bad Homburg
- Rautmann , family of violin makers from Braunschweig , whose workshop was founded in 1844
- Jean Vauchel (1782–1856), violin maker of French descent mainly active in Germany
France
- Nicolas Lupot (1758–1824), violin maker in Paris
- Jean Baptiste Vuillaume (1798–1875), most influential French violin maker of the 19th century
- François Chanot (1788–1825), pupil of Vuillaume, creator of the Chanot violin
- Gustave Bernardel (1832–1904), violin maker in Paris
- Paul Blanchard (1851–1912), violin maker in Paris
- Nicolas Eugène Simoutre (1834–1908) violin maker in Strasbourg, Basel and Paris
England
- Henry Hill (1774–1835), violin maker in London
- William Ebsworth Hill (1817–1895), violin maker and founder of WE Hill & Sons
Japan
- Suzuki Masakichi (1859–1944), founder of Japan's first violin factory in 1888
20./21. century
Italy
- Igino Sderci ( 1884-1983 ), Florence
- Rocchi Sesto (1909-1991), Reggio Emilia
- Otello Bignami ( 1914-1989 ), Bologna
Still active
- Roberto Regazzi (* 1956), Bologna
- Alessandro Ciciliati (* 1959), Cona-Ferrara, Lenzkirch / Saig
- Igor Moroder (* 1961), Verona
- Filippo Fasser (* 1967), Brescia
- Demetrio Demetri (* 1968?), Cremona
Germany
- Otto Möckel (1869-1937), Berlin
- August Wunderlich (around 1900), Markneukirchen
- Günther Hellwig (1903-1985), Lübeck
- Ludwig Closner ( 1904-1976 ), Munich, Mittenwald
- Herbert Moritz Mönnig ( 1909-1999 ), Markneukirchen, 1934-1975 at the Johannes Jehle music store, Ebingen / Württ.
- Olga Adelmann (1913 - 2000), first master violin maker in the world, Berlin
- Karl Montag (1917-1982), violin maker and painter
- Joseph Kantuscher (1923 - 2015), Mittenwald
- Hans Schicker (1924-2001), Freiburg
Still active
- Fritz Steiner (violin maker) (* 1908), Würzburg
- Wolfgang A. Uebel (* 1932), violin maker from a violin making family in Vogtland
- Christoph Götting (* 1948), Wiesbaden
- Roger Graham Hargrave (* 1948), Bremen (born in Leeds)
- Marc de Sterke (* 1948), Emmendingen near Freiburg
- Alessandro Ciciliati (* 1959), Cona-Ferrara, Lenzkirch / Saig
- Günter H. Lobe (* 1961), Bubenreuth
- Ekkard Seidl (* 1963), Markneukirchen
- Felix Scheit (* 1964), Berlin
- Martin Schleske (* 1965), master violin maker and writer in Munich
- Stefan-Peter Greiner (* 1966), Stuttgart
- Stefan Becker (* 1981?), Staufen (Breisgau)
- Philipp Augustin (* 1985?), Staufen (Breisgau)
- Gustav and Elfi Rautmann , Braunschweig
Switzerland
- J. Emile Züst ( 1846-1946 ), Zurich
- Paul Meinel (1865-1928), Basel
- August Meinel (1868-1961), Liestal
- Jean Werro (1868 - 1938) and Henry Werro (* 1896), Bern
- Gustav Lütschg ( 1870-1947 ), Bern
- Friedrich Alois (Fritz) Sprenger (1879-1936), St. Gallen
- Alfred Vidoudez ( 1879-1943 ), Geneva
- Gustav (1888-1971), Basel
- Gerhard Lütschg (* 1890), Bern
- Fritz Baumgartner I (* 1891) and II (* 1924), Basel
- Alfred von Niederhäusern ( 1902-1969 ), Lucerne
- Karl Friedrich Schneider (1905-1998), violin and guitar maker in Riehen
- Henry Jean Vermeer (1906-1965), Basel
- Pierre Vidoudez (* 1907), Geneva
- Adolf König (violin maker) (1908 - 2000), head of the Brienz violin making school
- Paul Senn (* 1919), Basel
- Phillip Cray , violin maker of English descent in Basel
Still active
- Roland Baumgartner (* 1955), Basel
France
- Étienne Vatelot ( 1925-2013 ), Paris
- Bernard Millant (* 1929), Paris
- Jean-Frédéric Schmitt (1937 - 2012), Lyon
Still active
- Loic Le Canu (* 1950?), Paris
- Jean Bauer , Angers
Spain
Still active
- David Bagué i Soler (* 1964), Barcelona
Hungary
Still active
- Gáspár László , lat.Ladislaus Caspar (* 1968), Pétfürdő
Czech Republic
Still active
- Jan Baptista Špidlen (* 1967), Prague
United States
- Sergio Peresson ( 1913-1991 ), Haddonfield, NJ
Still active
- Scott Cao (* 1970?), Campbell, CA
literature
- Leo von Lütgendorff : The violin and lute makers from the Middle Ages to the present. (1923) 2 volumes. Unchanged reprint of the 6th, revised edition, Tutzing: Schneider 1975 ISBN 3-7952-0061-X With a supplementary volume by Thomas Drescher, 1990 ISBN 3-7952-0616-2
- William Henley: Universal Dictionary of Violin & Bow Makers . Amati, Brighton; England 1969, ISBN 0901424005 .
- Vladimír Pilař, František Šrámek: Umění Houslařů (The Art of Violin Makers ), Prague 1989
- Boltshauser Hans: The violin makers of Switzerland, 1969, Verlag Haelg, Degersheim Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Had his workshop in the violin maker's house , Steingasse No. 25. Compare: Friedrich Breitinger / Kurt Weinkammer / Gerda Dohle: craftsmen, brewers, landlords and traders . Salzburg's commercial economy during Mozart's time, Salzburg 2009, p. 242.
- ↑ See: http://www.phillipcray.com/Phillip_Cray/Home.html