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Scan 47
The arts and crafts book of the worshipful Guild of violin-makers of Markneukirchen, from the year 1677 to the year 1772, 1894
4 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 39. See the scan on archive.org.
1the first to make the artistic polyphonic treatment of musical sounds universal in Germany. In his oratorios, side by side with isolated wind instruments, the string instruments were provided with the most difficult and complicated solo parts, and it must be remembered that Bach was director of the Thomas School in Leipzig, whither a commercial high-road from Bohemia led through Markneukirchen. Our native instrument-makers and those of other towns were in the habit of mingling in intercourse here, and to the present day, there exists at Markneukirchen a musical confluence at which during fair times the whole of eastern Europe satisfies its demand for violins. After this has been established it is hardly open to the smallest doubt that if, as we have seen, the manufacture of basses only began in the 18th century in Markneukirchen, the incentive came from Leipzig and from the introduction of church-music, and that in this respect (i.e., bass making) the family Reichel distinguished itself.
3A new orchestral wave soon after permeated from the southward to our musical valley. Joseph Haydn, bandmaster to Prince Esterhazy in Vienna, became, between 1760 and 1790, founder of the modern orchestra, by the invention and introduction of the symphony, as opposed to opera, which had by that time come over from Italy. Haydn first founded the real quartet, in which each instrument of the viol family held its special place; the treble, alto, tenor, and bass viols, and it was at this period that the bass became the real foundation of the whole scheme of orchestral harmony.
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