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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1XVI.—ENGELBERT RÖNTGEN.
3BORN on the 30th September, 1829, at Deventer in Holland, Röntgen was undecided in his youth as to whether he should adopt the career of a painter or that of a violinist. After much cogitation he decided in favour of the latter, and in 1848 he entered the Conservatorium at Leipzig where he prosecuted his study of the violin and theory under Ferdinand David and Moritz Hauptmann respectively. At the end of his student days he was appointed first violin in the famous Gewandhaus orchestra and at the opera, being promoted in 1869 to the responsible office of second "Conzertmeister," and at the same time he became teacher of the violin at the Conservatorium.
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