Research Catalog

Title

Franz Geissenhof und seine Zeit = Franz Geissenhof and his time / Rudolf Hopfner ; mit biographischen Beiträgen von Rita Steblin ; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.

Publication

Bergkirchen : Edition Bochinsky, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Hopfner, Rudolf
• Steblin, Rita
• Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Description

296 p. : numerous ill. (chiefly col.); 31 cm.

Summary

Not long after his death Franz Geissenhof (1753-1821) was being honored with the title "the Stradivari of Vienna"; today he is considered the leading violin maker of the Vienna Classic period. His career overlaps those of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, and his instruments are thus ideally suited to performing the works of that era. Geissenhof was also the first luthier in Vienna to recognize the tonal qualities of Italian violins, and to incorporate details of their construction in a purposeful manner in the violin model that he developed. In the e introductory chapters, Rita Steblin examines the circumstances of Franz Geissenhof's life as well as the biographies of members of the Thir and Dalinger families connected to him by marriage and profession. The subsequent texts by Rudolf Hopfner discuss details of construction in Geissenhof's work as well. The catalogue section features a comprehensive presentation of 18 instruments from various stages of Geissenhof's career as well as numerous molds, templates and other tools and implements from his workshop. To round out the picture, the cataogue section also discusses selected instruments by Geissenhof's contemporaries.

Alternative Title

Franz Geissenhof and his time

Subject

• Geissenhof, Franz, 1753-1821
• Violin makers > Austria > Vienna
• Violin > Construction > Austria > Vienna

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in German and English.

ISBN

• 9783941532007
• 3941532006

OCLC

• 605934115
• SCSB-9966668

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library