Category: instrumentBuilderDocs

Christian Blüthner-Haessler

Christian Blüthner-Haessler

Since 1995 Ingbert Blüthner-Haessler shared the management of the company with his two sons, Dr. med. Christian Blüthner-Haessler and Knut Blüthner-Haessler. In 2009, the piano company Karl Rönisch merged with Blüthner and Karl Rönisch production was moved to Blüthner factory in Leipzig. Today, along with C. Bechstein, Bösendorfer and Steinway & Sons, Blüthner is frequently referred to as one of the "Big Four" piano manufacturers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Ef-vpEGaQ web wikipedia Read more [...]
Zuzana Ceralová Petrofová

Zuzana Ceralová Petrofová

Zuzana Ceralová Petrofová (Susan Petrof) is a representative of the fifth generation of the Petrof family and is currently the head of the PETROF company. She is a very successful and respected manager not only within this branch of industry. In the course of her work at PETROF, she has gained many awards, particularly for her managerial skills. Among these is the honorary title MANAGER OF THE YEAR 2014, and she regularly appears in FORBES magazine’s list of the most influential women in Read more [...]
Julius Levin

Julius Levin

Julius Levin (* 21. Januar 1862 in Elbing; † 29. Januar 1935 in Brüssel) was a German MD, author and violin maker. He also wrote many books as author. Moderne Modemaler, Berlin 1887 Die Hygiene und Diätetik des Wochenbettes, Berlin 1892 Was tut der deutschen Kunst not?, Berlin 1912 Das Lächeln des Herrn von Golubice-Golubicki, Berlin 1915 Zweie und der Liebe Gott, Berlin 1919 Wehrmann Ismer, Berlin 1920 Die singende Dame, Read more [...]
Ekkehard Stammwitz

Ekkehard Stammwitz

I was born in 1945 in Schlesien and my first violin teacher made me interested in building violins since he did himself. Before retiring as cardiologist I took classes since 2008 and learnt from Jozef Novak in Slowakia. Since my retirement in 2010 I fully work in building violins and also play in two orchestras. web wikipedia DEwikipedia EN youtube - vimeo facebook - twitter - instagram work Read more [...]
van Leeuwen

van Leeuwen

Born in 1872 Dr. van Leeuwen became MD in 1897. Besides he studied music and began working scientifically about building violins. After 5 years of learning he fully built violins, creating his own system and was well-known because of their sonority. In Brussels he got the silver medal in 1910. web wikipedia DEwikipedia EN youtube - vimeo facebook - twitter - instagram work Read more [...]
Franjo Kresnik

Franjo Kresnik

Dr. Franjo (Franz) Kresnik (born Wien 1869 – died Rijeka 1943) was an excellent physician and a Central European intellectual, a bohemian mind whose two loves in life made him very special. His passions were medicine and violin making. Most of his life was spent in Sušak (now a part of Rijeka, Croatia), where he worked, played music and studied the art of making stringed instruments. He visited Cremona on several occasions and studied a number of violins, drawings and tools made and used Read more [...]
Hans Walz

Hans Walz

Instrument: Hillebille Hans Walz had a DDR folk music group the "Stieger Walzmusikanten" and built historical instruments as this Hillebille with which his family band performed. Folk music of the Harz (mountain chain in the middle of Germany) area has fascinated Dr.med. Hans Walz, especially when performed on historical Harz instruments like the "devils violin" or the "Hillebille". The general practitioner and lung specialist who settled his office in the little town Stiege in the eastern Read more [...]
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer OM (German: [ˈalbɛʁt ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ] (listen); 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian-German[3] polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His Read more [...]