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The origin of the violin family is obscure. [1] [2] Some say that the bow was introduced to Europe from the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world, [3] [4] [5] while others say the bow was not introduced from the Middle East but the other way around, and that the bow may have originated from more frequent contact between Northern and Western Europe.
This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence. Andrea Amati (ca. 1505 - 1577, Cremona) was a luthier, from Cremona, Italy.
Tartini was the first known owner of a violin made by Antonio Stradivari in 1715, which Tartini bestowed upon his student Salvini, who in turn gave it to the Polish composer and virtuoso violinist Karol Lipiński upon hearing him perform: the instrument is thus known as the Lipinski Stradivarius. Tartini also owned and played the Antonio ...
Named after its first known owner. Boissier-Sarasate: 1690 Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid Named after its owner, this violin is one of two Stradivarius instruments which previously belonged to Navarrese musician Pablo de Sarasate. [33] Ex-Ries: 1691 Reinhold Würth Music Foundation On loan to József Lendvay Jr. since 2008 ...
The violin was first known in 16th-century Italy, with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries to give the instrument a more powerful sound and projection. In Europe, it served as the basis for the development of other stringed instruments used in Western classical music, such as the viola. [1] [2] [3]
Gasparo da Salò was born in 1542 in Salò on Lake Garda, Brescia, Italy, [2] in a family with legal, artistic, musical and craft interests. His grandfather Santino, a land and flock owner who it is believed likely produced musical gut strings, moved from Polpenazze to Salò, capital of the Riviera del Garda, possibly in search of the greater opportunities then available in Salò, whose music ...
Andrea Postacchini (November 30, 1781 - February 3, 1862) was an Italian violin maker born in Fermo, known as "Stradivari of the Marches" (a region of central Italy). Postacchini was born on 30 December 1781 in Fermo, a hilltop town near the east coast in Italy's Marches region.
Jacob Stainer (c. 1618 [] –1683) was the earliest and best known Austrian and Germanic luthier.His violins were sought after by famous 17th- and 18th-century musicians and composers including Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and George Simon-Lohein [].