Scan 264
The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1fastly German character of a model which no pupil of Amati could have persisted in using, even though based on his earliest traditions.
3The marriage of Stainer took place October 7th, 1645. On the 9th of October, 1658, he was appointed by the Archduke Leopold (of Austria, Governor of Tyrol) one of the "archducal servants," and on the 9th of January, 1669, he obtained from the Emperor the title of "Violin-maker to the Court." About this period he is said to have incurred the displeasure of the Jesuits, which led to his being accused of the crime of heresy. The accusation seems to have been based on the fact of books of a controversial kind—chiefly Lutheran—having been found in his possession. The penalty he suffered for daring to indulge in polemical literature was six months' imprisonment, and his future prospects were completely shattered. Prior to this misfortune he appears to have been in pecuniary difficulties, and frequently at law with one Salomon Heubmer, of Kirzchdorf, from whom he had obtained money loans. In the year 1677 he petitioned the Emperor Leopold—who was a great patron and lover of music—to render him pecuniary assistance, but failed to procure it. Over-burdened with troubles, he was bereft of his reason, and died insane and insolvent in the year 1683.
5"Alas! misfortunes travel in a train,
6And oft in life form one perpetual chain."
8His widow was left with a family of eight daughters, she dying in poverty in 1689, which chronological fact disposes of the fiction so widely circulated that in consequence of the great grief he experienced upon the death of his wife
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