Mainz · 1715 to 1768
Historical maker
Named in 6 books.
Also recorded as: Döpfer, Nicolaus; Döpfer, Nikolaus
What the books printed
A dictionary of violin makers, Stainer, C. (Cecie). London; New York: Novello, Ewer, 1896. Page 24, scan 32.
Dopfer (Döpfer), Nicolaus. A maker in Mayence (?) about 1768. His instruments are well made, slightly arched, the sound-holes small but well-cut, the varnish is brown. A few tenors of his are known. — governing section heading: "A DICTIONARY OF VIOLIN MAKERS." — the trade evidence is the heading over this list, not the entry's own line — from OCR (read_as: ocr)
A dictionary of violin makers, Stainer, C. (Cecie). London: Novello, n.d. Page 24, scan 34. Held as more than one scan.
Dopfer (Döpfer), Nicolaus. A maker in Mayence about 1750-68. His instruments are well made, slightly arched, the sound-holes small but well cut, the varnish is brown. A few tenors of his are known. — governing section heading: "A DICTIONARY OF VIOLIN MAKERS." — the trade evidence is the heading over this list, not the entry's own line — from OCR (read_as: ocr)
A dictionary of violin makers, Stainer, C. (Cecie). London: Novello, n.d. Page 24, scan 34. Held as more than one scan.
Dopfer (Döpfer), Nicolaus. A maker in Mayence about 1750-68. His instruments are well made, slightly arched, the sound-holes small but well cut, the varnish is brown. A few tenors of his are known. — governing section heading: "VIOLIN MAKERS." — the trade evidence is the heading over this list, not the entry's own line — from OCR (read_as: ocr)
Old violins, Haweis, H. R. (Hugh Reginald). Edinburgh, Grant, 1905. Page 248, scan 272.
DOPFER (Döpfer), Nicolaus. Mayence (?) about 1768; instruments well made, slightly arched; sound-holes small but well cut, varnish brown. — governing section heading: "DICTIONARY OF VIOLIN MAKERS" — the trade evidence is the heading over this list, not the entry's own line — from OCR (read_as: ocr)
the violin its famous makers and their imitators, 1909. Page 262, scan 324. Held as more than one scan.
DÖPFER, Nicolaus, 1768. The instruments of this maker are well made; the model is less raised than that of many German makers. He made a few large Tenors. Döpfer was the master of Martin Diehl.
Die Geigen- und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 1904. Page 143, scan 165.
Döpfer (Dopfer), Nikolaus. — Mainz. 1715. 1768.
An encyclopedia of the violin, Alberto Bachmann. 1925. Page 21, scan 43. Held as more than one scan.
DOPFER, NIKOLAUS, Mainz, 1715 to 1768.
- Entries from 6 books stand under this name, and the software judged them likely the same person. Tell us if that is wrong and we will split the record.
- May be the same person as Döpfer, Nicolaus (merged into Dopfer, Nicolaus)
Same town, same time
9 other Mainz makers have a year in the 1700s. A few of them:
- 1715 to 1750 Elsler, Johann Joseph
- 1720 to 1750 Elsler, J.
- 1720 to 1750 Elsler, Joseph
- about 1740 Esler, Johann-Joseph
- 1770 to 1792 Diehl, Martin
- 1775 to 1818 Steininger, Jakob