Norbert Visser

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Norbert Visser (born May 9, 1919 in Haarlem ; † November 16, 2003 in Schoorl ) was a Dutch musician and instrument maker .

Live and act

After studying violin at the Conservatory in The Hague, Visser gave concerts and taught for several years. In 1953, through violin maker Karl Weidler, he got to know the ideas of Viennese instrument maker Franz Thomastik about further developments in string instrument making. In the following years he worked together with the violin maker Josef Musil on the development of his own violin model, later known as the Choroi violin. From 1959 Visser began to develop further instruments. Lyre models were created, following on from Edmund Pracht and Lothar Gärtner's construction, as well as new metallophones. With the foundation “Kind und Instrument”, founded in 1964 together with the doctor and curative educator Bernard Lievegoed , the Choroi musical instrument making established itself with the aim of producing instruments in socio-therapeutic workshops based on new sound ideas. In 1966 Norbert Visser founded the socio-therapeutic facility Scorlewald in North Holland. In the years that followed, further wind, string and percussion instruments were created here and in a Europe-wide association of socio-therapeutic workshops. In particular, the children's harp developed in 1968 together with Julius Knierim and Helmut Hofstetter and the pentatonic choroi flute, which has been built in Järna (Sweden) since 1969, have found worldwide distribution.

Works

  • The clay secret of matter. About form and materiality in musical instrument making. Järna 1984.
  • Het mysterie van de toon in men, ruimte en matter. Schoorl 1997.
  • Dagboek van de night. Schoorl 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Visser: Dagboek van de Nacht. 1998, p. 89.
  2. ↑ [ http://biographien.kulturimpuls.org/detail.php?&id=1289 ] Karl Weidler, biographical archive note. Research Center for Culture Impulse.
  3. ↑ from Plato, Bodo (ed.): Anthroposophy in the 20th century. A cultural impulse in biographical portraits . Dornach 2003, ISBN 3-7235-1199-6 , p. 828-829 .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Beilharz: The lyre . In: Gerhard Beilharz (Hrsg.): Music in education and therapy . Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7725-2237-8 , pp. 179-189 .
  5. ↑ Norbert Visser: The Choroi musical instrument as a musical and social impulse. In: Care of the soul in curative education and social therapy. No. 1, 1983, pp. 6-11.
  6. ↑ Carolien Visser: Wij bouwden eens een dorp. Zeist 2002, ISBN 90 6238 777 2 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Pedroli: The Choroiflute . In: Gerhard Beilharz (Hrsg.): Music in education and therapy . Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7725-2237-8 , pp. 203-208 .
personal data
SURNAME Visser, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch musician and musical instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Haarlem
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2003
Place of death Schoorl