{"id":39718,"date":"2022-11-18T16:06:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikzeitung.ch\/?p=39718"},"modified":"2024-10-28T14:26:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T13:26:05","slug":"fideln-und-meistergeigen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikzeitung.ch\/en\/berichte\/2022\/11\/fideln-und-meistergeigen","title":{"rendered":"Fiddles and master violins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Birgit Steinfels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new permanent exhibition at the violin making school in Brienz documents the history of this instrument in Switzerland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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When the Swiss violin making school in Brienz was extended, two showrooms were planned. One room shows the recently opened permanent exhibition on violin making and violin playing in Switzerland, the other the development of a violin, in-house stringed instruments as proof of performance and documents the eventful history of the violin making school founded in 1944.<\/p>\n

Admittedly: The new violin museum is small, with around twenty exhibits. Hikers walking from Brienz railroad station along the lake towards the church who want to get an idea of the Swiss violin can gain an overview in ten minutes. However, those who take the time to read the text panels and all the information available via monitors in the form of images, spoken word and musical examples will be rewarded with an originally presented, multifaceted history of the Swiss violin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The violin in art and folk music<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The theme \"Of fiddles and master violins\" can already be illustrated in Switzerland with exhibits from the late 17th century. In Oberbalm near Bern between 1685 and 1699, the carpenter Hans Krouchdaler made stringed instruments decorated with geometric and plant ornaments in the style of the Alemannic school from the Black Forest. He is considered to be one of the oldest violin makers north of the Alps. The tenor violin from 1699, a magnificent testimony to old craftsmanship, was probably played in a municipal Collegium musicum. This artistic instrument, carefully restored by Hans-Rudolf H\u00f6sli, the former director of the violin-making school, is juxtaposed with a sooty peasant fiddle from Bellwald (Goms) made by the player himself or by a local carpenter. It also dates back to the 17th century and is reminiscent of \"runaway\" musicians who often played for dancing, which was often forbidden.<\/p>\n