!!!Stainer Steiner, Jakob

b. Absam (Tirol), 1617, 
d. Absam (Tirol), Oct. or Nov. 1683, violin maker. Probably student of 
the masters of Cremona; from 1658 violin maker at court, from 1656 
workshop in Absam (without assistants or apprentices). Founder of the 
Central European school of violin making; combined Italian 
manufacturing techniques with the German violin model. His violins are 
characterised by a particularly beautiful sound and are of equal 
quality as the Italian masterpieces (often compared to Amati violins). 
mental illness from 1675; his last violin is dated 1682. The violin 
maker Marcus S. (b. Hallein, 1633, d. Laufen, Nov. 
27, 1693), though often referred to as brother of Jakob S., is 
not a relative.

!Literature
W. Senn, J. S. Leben und Werk des Ti. Meisters 
1617-1683, 1986.



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