Sander (instrument maker)
The Sander family was a family of musicians and instrument makers from the Musikantenland , who had workshops in Wolfstein , Kaiserslautern and Lauterecken .
Friedrich Jacob Sander was the first professional instrument maker from the Sander family. He was born in Wolfstein in 1809 and died in Kaiserslautern in 1876. After his marriage he first lived in Ulmet .
In 1834 he founded the “First Palatinate Violin Making Institute” in Kaiserslautern . In 1836 he moved to Kaiserslautern. There he founded the "Capelle Sander", which played at festivals, balls and other events in the region. His violins were mentioned in the "Dictionnaire Universel des Luthiers" , published by René Vannes in Brussels in 1951, as exemplary products of instrument making.
His son Jakob Sander (I) , born in Ulmet in 1833, died in Kaiserslautern in 1897, opened his own instrument factory in Kaiserslautern. At the Palatinate Industrial Exhibition in 1872, he and Franz Pfaff received an award for their brass instruments. He supplied the Tsar's court in St. Petersburg and various orchestras in the United States.
Jakob Sander (I) had 10 children. His son Friedrich Sander played the violin and trumpet and composed pieces for the Chapel Sander at an early age. He graduated from the Royal Music School in Munich and joined the Royal Bavarian Court Orchestra.
Four sons turned to instrument making. Jakob Sander (II) , born in Kaiserslautern in 1857, emigrated to the USA in 1895. He worked as an instrument maker and opened a music shop there, which also opened the door to the American market for his brother Rudolf Sander .
Rudolf Sander, born in Kaiserslautern in 1866, became the most famous instrument maker in the Sander family. He returned to Wolfstein in 1892 and opened his instrument making workshop there. He built the largest tuba in the world, a Subcontra-C. He died in Wolfstein in 1942.
A son of Rudolf, Friedrich Sander , born in Wolfstein in 1894, continued the father's business in Wolfstein. He died in Zweibrücken in 1975 . Another son, August Sander , born in Wolfstein in 1898, opened a workshop in Lauterecken. After his death in 1959 on the Reckweilerhof , the business was continued by his son Ludwig Sander, born in Wolfstein in 1927. This workshop can now be viewed in the "Wolfstein Printing Museum".
Sources and literature
- ^ A b Paul PJ Engel: Palatinate Musikantenland Museum at Lichtenberg Castle . Görres-Verlag, Koblenz 2001, ISBN 3-920388-99-2 ( District Kusel . No. 1)
- ↑ a b c Marliese Fuhrmann: Cuckoo Call and Nightingale. The Palatinate hiking musicians . Gollenstein, Blieskastel 2000, ISBN 3-933389-27-5