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The story of the violin, 1904
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1Story of the Violin
3Hamburg, died much esteemed as professor at the Conservatory of Prague, founded in 1811. Of the two brothers Eck, the last of the scions of the Mannheim school, Joh. Friedr. Eck (born in 1766 at Mannheim) was the more distinguished artist, being considered by some as one of the finest German violinists of the eighteenth century; but his younger brother and pupil, Franz Eck (1774-1809 or 1810), occupies an abiding special place in the history of violin-playing as the teacher of Spohr. Last to be mentioned here, because standing in the traditions of the early Mannheim school, is Leopold Mozart (born in 1719 at Augsburg, died at Salzburg in 1787), father and teacher of the immortal Wolfgang Amadeus, and author of a once famous violin method, the first published in Germany sixteen years after Geminiani's work. He was until his death concert-master and vice-conductor to the Archbishop of Salzburg.
5In addition to the hitherto-mentioned German violinists of the eighteenth century, there remain yet a number of artists who formed their individuality independent of the three principal cities, Dresden, Berlin, and Mannheim, by this or that foreign or home influence. We have already made the superficial acquaintance of the three Tartini pupils—Joseph Holzbogen, Anton Kammel, and Lorenz Schmitt; likewise of Anton Janitch (1763-1812), the pupil of Pugnani and a well-known artist in his day. The brothers Cröner were connected with the Munich court orchestra. Franz Lamotte (1757-81) was noted as much for his great
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