VF Červený & synové

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VF Červený & synové

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legal form Part of Amati-Denak , sro formerly Amati Kraslice n.p.
founding 1842–1946, "nationalized" in 1946, "privatized" after the fall of the Wall in 1989
Seat Hradec Králové
Number of employees 100 (1880)
Branch Brass instruments , musical instruments
Website vfcerveny.cz

The founder Wenzel Franz Cerveny

VF Červený & synové ( German  V. F. Červený & Sons ) is a Czech instrument maker in Hradec Králové (Königgrätz).

history

The company was founded in 1842 by Václav František Červený (1819–1896) in Königgrätz at Grosse Platz 26. At that time he had rented four rooms and employed four workers and one apprentice. As early as 1843 the move to the house at Kavčí plácek 120 took place, which remained the company headquarters for almost 100 years.

Červený successfully invented and developed wind instruments for the market in the Danube Monarchy and abroad. In 1866 his sons Jaroslav and Stanislaus joined the company as partners. Customers not only included the imperial army, but also the court in Vienna. For their services, the owners were appointed imperial and royal purveyors .

The company was successfully run by the sons. The musical instruments won prizes at world exhibitions , such as in Paris in 1889 and in Chicago in 1893 . From Chicago , Louis Viták (1862–1933) became the sole representative in the USA and Canada at the end of the 19th century.

The company survived the First World War and the collapse of the monarchy .

Nationalization after World War II

Immediately after the Second World War , V. F. Červený & synové was nationalized , " nationalized " due to the Beneš decrees by the future new socialist rulers who came to power in the February putsch in 1948 . In 1946 it was "merged" with the state-owned company Amati Kraslice - one of the (today) "world's largest" manufacturers of brass and woodwind instruments - according to its own statements - and thus lost its independence. In 1973 the production moved to a nearby new facility in Hradec Králové.

Privatization after 1989

After the end of the communist dictatorship, the collapse of the Eastern bloc of the then disintegrating USSR , Amati Kraslice was privatized as Amati-Denak , in the one, more common, form of transferring into the hands of the former directors of the national enterprise (in Czech: národní podnik, np , like VEB in the GDR ). VF Červený & synové exists again today as an independent brand of this company with its own production site.

Products

FA Červený continues to manufacture all types of wind instruments such as trumpets , flugelhorns , hunting horns , tenor horns , baritones , trombones , French horns , tubas , cimbassi , helicopter tubes and the necessary accessories.

Old instruments from the original FA Červený are now in museums around the world and are auctioned off.

literature

  • Bohuslav Cícek: Václav František Cervený and his musical instruments in the Prague National Museum . In: The musical instrument . tape 41 , no. 11 , November 1992, pp. 73-78 .
  • Günter Dullat: VF Cervený & Sons, 1821–1992: A documentation . Nauheim 1992.
  • Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saurova: company VF Cerveny. ( RTF ; 28 kB) (No longer available online.) Knihovna města Hradce Králové, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 28, 2011 (Czech).  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.knihovnahk.cz  
  2. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy for 1899 . KuK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1899, p. 358 .
  3. ↑ History of VFČervený Hradec Králové. Amati-Denak, 2010, archived from the original on September 10, 2012 ; Retrieved October 22, 2010 (Czech).
  4. ↑ Euphonium by VF Červený & Fils, Königgräts, Bohemia, approx. 1900. National Music Museum, October 22, 2007, accessed on October 22, 2010 (English).
  5. ↑ Cylindrové nástroje VFČERVENÝ. Amati-Denak, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2009 ; Retrieved October 22, 2010 (Czech).
  6. ↑ LOT 95. Sotheby's, November 4, 98, accessed on October 22, 2010 : “Description VF Cerveny & Sohne (fl Konniggratz, 1842-1946) A baritone horn Koniggratz, circa 1900 brass tubing and nickel mounts, four rotary valves inscribed VF Cerveny & Sohne zu Koniggratz in Bohmen also stamped on the garland 1.TJR2. length 31 in., 78.8 cm. "

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 38.7 "  N , 15 ° 50 ′ 14.4"  E