"Violin Repair" - Rib Restoration - RJ Storm - Violin Maker, Restorer

Contact: Propinquity9@Hotmail.com This violin is a family heirloom that is owned by a professional player who wanted the instrument restored. It is a commercial German instrument, ---but it was, "Granddad's!" In addition to the rib graft, the back table had a terrible warp from a chinrest that was squeezed for half a century, unglued blocks, and a really thick bass bar. Like a barn beam. When the job was completed, with a new post, bridge, and Helicore heavy tension strings,......it really did ring like a bell. And this shop can do this, and much more, for you!

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Frank Michael Erben Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E accessory Part1 by Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music { "Meisterwerke der klassischen Musik" (Germany) } Documentary & Performance Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Germany Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor ( 1844 ) Frank Michael Erben *********************************************************************** Felix Mendelssohn Biographyby AMG Birth Feb 3, 1809 in Hamburg, Germany Death Nov 4, 1847 in Leipzig, Germany Genre Country * Choral Music * Keyboard Music * Orchestral Music * Symphony * Chamber Music Germany Period Years Active Romantic1819-1847 Other Entries * Popular Music Entry * Movie Entry Far from the troubled, coarse libertine that has become an archetype of the Romantic composer, Felix Mendelssohn was something of an anomaly among his contemporaries. His own situation -- one largely of domestic tranquility and unhindered career fulfillment -- stands in stark contrast to the personal Sturm und Drang familiar to his peers. Mendelssohn was the only musical prodigy of the nineteenth century whose stature could rival that of Mozart. Still, his parents resisted any entrepreneurial impulses and spared young Felix the strange, grueling lifestyle that was the lot of many child prodigies. He and his sister Fanny were given piano lessons, and he also studied violin, and both joined the Berlin Singakademie. Carl Friedrich Zelter, director of the Singakademie, became Mendelssohn's first composition instructor. Even in his youth, Mendelssohn moved with natural grace ...

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