Simon Straub

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Simon Straub (* presumably late 1662 to mid- 1663 in Friedenweiler ; † March 29, 1730 in Rudenberg, today Titisee-Neustadt ) was a German violin maker . He belonged to the fourth generation of the Straub luthier dynasty and is considered one of their best representatives.

Life

Simon Straub was probably born from the end of 1662 to mid-1663 in Friedenweiler in the Black Forest as the son of the violin maker Franz Straub and his first wife Catharina Esser. The Straub family has been one of the most important representatives of Black Forest violin making for six generations. Like his brother, Simon was trained by his father, who belonged to the Alemannic school . In 1686 he married Agatha Meier and around 1690 they moved into a farm in Langenordnach in what is now Titisee-Neustadt , today known as Unteres Wirtshaus , where most of his violins were made and where he taught three sons in violin making. Around 1709 he moved with his family into a house in Rudenberg, since his youngest brother took over the farm in Langenordnach. After the death of his wife in 1718, he married Maria Raufer, 33 years his junior.

After the death of his father, his main creative period between 1700 and 1730 consolidated his reputation as an outstanding violin maker, which was to persist even after his death, as Willibald von Lütgendorff described him as "the best master of the Straub family". His entry in the death register of the Rudenberg community bears the addition "famosissimus Cheliser" (most famous violin maker). As a distinguishing feature of the Straub violins, Simon Straub used a carved lion's head to close the pegbox . His violins were sold throughout the German-speaking area as well as to Hungary and Holland.

Trivia

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Ludwig van Beethoven used a Straub violin in his early years, which is now on display in the Beethoven House in Bonn . Another copy of Straub's works can be found in the State Collection of Old Musical Instruments in Berlin.

The historical novel Geigenholz by the author Birgit Hermann is based on the life of Simon Straub and primarily deals with possible wanderings of the violin maker and the origin of his lion heads instead of the usual snail .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Hodapp: Violin Maker in the Upper Black Forest (PDF; 19.5 MB). Waldshut-Tiengen 2004. Here p. 79 and 82.
  2. ↑ Kurt Hodapp: Violin Maker in the Upper Black Forest (PDF; 19.5 MB). Waldshut-Tiengen 2004. Here p. 80.
  3. ↑ Friederike Tröndle: In the footsteps of the violin maker Simon Straub . In: Badische Zeitung , March 28, 2013. Accessed July 21, 2013.
  4. ^ Liane Schilling: Titisee-Neustadt: The world's largest violin , Badische Zeitung, March 19, 2010, accessed on March 11, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Straub, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violin maker
DATE OF BIRTH 1662 or 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedenweiler
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1730
Place of death Rudenberg, today Titisee-Neustadt