!!!Geigenbau Violin-making, in Austria since around 1500; at first the centre of violin and lute-making was situated in Tyrol, with G. Diffenprucker (1514-1570), J. Stainer (1621-1683) and the Klotz family (founders of the Mittenwald violin manufacture) as the most famous exponents. In the course of the 18%%sup th/% and especially the 19%%sup th/% centuries Vienna became the leading place for violin and piano-making; among the many violin-makers were the Thier family, F. Geissenhof and J. G. Stauffer as well as the Enzensperger, Feilnreiter and Zach families. !Literature H. Ottner, Der Wiener Instrumentenbau 1815-33, 1977; F. Prochart, Der Wiener Geigenbau im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, 1979. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Geigenbau|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]