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[1] [2] Amati is credited with making the first instruments of the violin family that are in the form we use today. [3] Several of his instruments survive to the present day, and some of them can still be played. [3] [4] [5] Many of the surviving instruments were among a consignment of 38 instruments delivered to Charles IX of France in 1574. [6]
David Grimal pursues an international career as a solo violinist, which has seen him performing regularly over the past twenty years in the world's leading classical music venues and with prestigious orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Berliner Symphoniker, New ...
Moses or Moishe Elman [5] was born to a Jewish family in Talnoye, Umansky Uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (today Talne, Ukraine). [4]His grandfather Yosele Elman was a klezmer, a Jewish professional traditional musician who played the violin, and his father Saul Iosipovich Elman was a melamed and amateur violinist.
Garrett received his first Stradivarius violin at the age of 11, courtesy of German president Richard von Weizsäcker, after having performed for him. [9] At the age of 13, Garrett recorded two CDs, appeared on German and Dutch television, [10] and gave a concert in the residence of the President of Germany, the Villa Hammerschmidt. [11]
The violin is primarily used as support for a vocalist, as the sound of a violin complements that of the singer, but is also largely played solo. In solo violin concerts, the violinist is accompanied by percussion instruments, usually the tabla, the mridangam and the ghatam. The violin is also a principal instrument for Indian film music. V.
Lindsey Stirling (violin pop, electro, dance-pop) Dinesh Subasinghe (pop, Music of Sri Lanka, Baila, Celtic, Chinese, Buddhist music, rock, folk) Alicia Svigals (klezmer) Dave Swarbrick (British/Celtic folk and folk/rock) Sam Sweeney (British/Celtic folk and folk/rock – Kerfuffle, Bellowhead, Leveret, Made in the Great War [4])
Ed Alleyne-Johnson (born 1959) is a British electric violinist and busker.He has been busking since he was a Fine Art student at Oxford University in the early 1980s. He uses an electric violin he carved with a kitchen knife, [1] a custom pedalboard and portable amplifier.
The origin of the violin family is unclear. [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.