Louis Noebe

Louis Ernst Johann Theodor Noebe (born April 18, 1843 in Güstrow , † 1931 in Bad Homburg ) was a German cellist and violin maker .

Life

Louis Noebe was a son of the Güstrow cathedral organist and organ builder Carl Noebe . His uncle, (Johann) Friedrich (Leonhard) Noebe (1799-1871) was as cellist Hofmusicus and member of the court orchestra of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Neustrelitz .

From 1862 to 1865 he studied cello playing with Louis Lübeck and counterpoint with Oscar Paul at the Leipzig Conservatory, today's University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig . After that he was a cellist in the Gewandhaus Orchestra and in the Weimar Court Orchestra for a while .

As a solo cellist he played in Bad Homburg and in the museum concerts in Frankfurt am Main . Hans von Bülow gave several solo concerts with him. From 1883 he taught cello playing at the Raff Conservatory .

As early as 1876 he gave up his position as solo cellist and founded a workshop for violin, viola and cello making. He experimented with various improvements in the violin , which he as a trademark Noebe system was protected. According to his contemporary (and competitor) Otto Migge , this system consists of a more elliptical shape of the violin body and a greater thickness of the back at the location of the voice. This point is visible as an increase in the size of a piece of marrow and has the effect of offering greater resistance to the voice, whereby the vibrations of the ceiling become more energetic; the floor itself is not vibrated enough. One can therefore say that the ceiling only interacts with the enclosed air, as would also be the case with a thick floor which is the same thickness over an entire area. This makes the sound strong but ignoble. The too soft varnish that Herr Noebe used on his instruments has also done his best to limit the initially strong tone to only a short time. Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg judged that the workshop had a good reputation, but: Several inventions made by him, such as an induction beam , do not seem to have proven themselves over the long term. Today's representations characterize the Noebe system primarily as a modified bass bar .

Noebe's customers included Pablo de Sarasate , August Wilhelmj , Isidore de Swert (1830–1896), Leopold von Auer , David Popper , Bernhard Cossmann , Ernest de Munck and Jenő Hubay .

He also experimented with innovations in piano construction and in 1893 presented a four-part coupling pedal he had developed .

Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 45

In Bad Homburg, Noebe owned the Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade house No. 45. The building, which is now a listed building, in which he also rented rooms to spa guests as a lodging host , was known at different times as Haus Noebe , Maison Noebe or Villa Noebe .

For the museum's 100th anniversary in 2016, the Bad Homburg City History Museum was able to purchase a violin from Louis Noebe in the Gothic House .

literature

• Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten: History of the violoncello, the viol da gamba, their precursors and collateral instruments: with biographies of all the most eminent players of every country. London: Reeves 1915, pp. 444f

Web links

• Cello (1892) at Sotheby’s 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Reinhard Jaehn, Martin Schulze: 600 years of organ sound: The organs in St. Marien zu Friedland (Mecklenburg). Berlin: epubli 2004 ISBN 9783844284959 , p. 27. - Corrected by entries and references in the Mecklenburg-Strelitz state calendar.
2. ↑ See the references in Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen : Musical interpretation: Hans von Bülow. (= Supplements to the archive for musicology ISSN  0570-6769 46) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 1999 ISBN 9783515075145 , p. 485 and others .
3. ↑ Otto Migge: The secret of the famous Italian violin maker. Frankfurt / M .: Staudt 1894, p. 62f
4. ↑ The violin and lute makers from the Middle Ages to the present day. Frankfurt: Keller 1904 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ), p. 455
5. ↑ System Noebe  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the blog Slight Violins , accessed June 6, 2017  
6. ↑ According to van der Straeten (lit.)
7. ^ The piano teacher 16 (1893), p. 201
8. ^ Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 45, main building. Bad Homburg digital building book. (As of July 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
9. ↑ 22 Louise 9/2016, p. 21 (with illustration), accessed on June 7, 2017