Book: The Meisel Family Violinmakers

Book: The Meisel Family ViolinmakersEarly in 1949 at the age of only nineteen, a violinmaker who had just passed his apprenticeship examination made the dangerous journey from his Klingenthal home in East Germany s Music Corner to the West and to freedom. His name was Lothar Meisel, and in his veins flowed the blood of eight previous generations of Meisel family violinmakers who had passed the craft from father to son for nearly three centuries. Eventually Lothar came to settle in the

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First-ever full recording of an almost 500-year-old instrument masterpiece

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Valente: Gagliarda napolitana

A witness is now ready to tell you the truth from beyond the grave

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London had supplanted Paris as the centre of the international violin trade

Tromboncino: Stavasi amor

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a Native American rattle and drum from contemporary Indigenous artists

and revealing handwritten documents—all of which build out the history of these remarkable men

Technical drawing of a violin by Marco Antonio Cerin