Rees is now a music teacher in Melbourne and also plays the violin and bass for the band Beggs 2 differ.

The contents of his studio, including a number of major paintings, over 4000 drawings, and his violin, were bequeathed by the artist to the city museum of Montauban, now known as the Musée Ingres.

* Andy Stein – violin, tenor and bass saxophones, vocals ( now only appears occasionally )

The ensemble, which is now commonly referred to as the Pierrot ensemble, consists of flute ( doubling on piccolo ), clarinet ( doubling on bass clarinet ), violin ( doubling on viola ), violoncello, speaker, and piano.

Nielsen learned the violin and piano as a child and wrote his earliest compositions at the age of eight or nine: a lullaby, now lost, and a polka which the composer notated in his autobiography.

In 1772, he was appointed by Felice Giardini to play violin in the opera at Covent Garden ( now the Royal Opera House ), and from 1773 he was principal violist there.

Apart from the trio sonata, which is written for flute, violin and basso continuo, the pieces have few indications of which instruments are meant to play them, although there is now significant support for the idea that they are for solo keyboard, like most of Bach's other published works.

In Banat, the violin is the most common folk instrument, now played alongside imported woodwind instruments ; other instruments include the taragot ( today often the saxophone plays the taragot role in bands ), which was imported in the 1920s from Hungary.

The flute ( fluier in Romanian ) and violin are the traditional melodic element, but now clarinets and accordions are more often used.

Born in Leuven, where there is now a street named in his honour, he moved to France in 1810, where he studied violin with Jean-François Tiby, a pupil of Giovanni Battista Viotti.

Although these are now rarely heard, his pedagogical compositions are still of use for violin students.

Gillette also made use of a magnifying-glass, a violin and a syringe, which all came from the Canon and which were all now established as " props " to the Sherlock Holmes character.

Jol Devitro née Joel Perez ( guitars, vocals ) and Brian Weaver ( bass, vocals ) formed the group, and the band's first lineup featured Emily Limón née Davis ( violin ), Karl Soehnlein ( now writer K. M.

That same year, István Kertész enrolled as a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music, now the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied violin, piano and composition with Zoltán Kodály, Leo Weiner and Rezső Kókai.

* The Le Saraste violin is made by Antonio Stradivari ( now owned by the Real Concervatorio Superior de Música in Madrid, Spain ).

He experimented with the violin, and among his disciples, Vadivelu of the Thanjavur Quartet, and his brother Baluswami Dikshitar pioneered the use of violin in Carnatic music, now an integral part of most Carnatic ensembles.

Two of the sung parts of the incidental music ended up in these suites ( the famous In the Hall of the Mountain King in the 1st suite with the vocal parts omitted, and the last part of the 2nd suite, Solveig's Song, the solo part now played by violin rather than sung, though the vocal version is sometimes substituted ).

Scott Cao ( pronounced Chow ) is a violin maker ( luthier ), who is originally from China but now works in Campbell, California, USA.

Gingold was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire ( now Brest, Belarus ), and emigrated in 1920 to the United States where he studied violin with Vladimir Graffman in New York City.

Sissle played violin and also served as drum major for the 369th that, under Europe as bandmaster, is now considered amongst the greatest jazz bands of all time.

USA on 1 February 2007 ); Sonata for Organ ( premiered by Robert Green at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales on 22 August 2007 ); the opera, Far from the Madding Crowd, premièred at the Thomas Hardy Festival in July 2006 ; Mass for Unaccompanied Solo Voice, premiered by soprano Paula Downes at the MIT Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 6 March 2008 ; Sonata for Horn, Violin and Piano for the Brahms Trio Prague ( Monica Vrabcová, violin ; Ondrej Vrabec, Horn Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Wiesner, piano ), premiered at the Suk Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague on 5 February 2008 ( a CD of this work has now been released on the Czech Philharmonic Artesmon label ); Finished Fields, a setting of four poems by Wilfred Owen commissioned by Jonathan Pugsley ( bass-baritone ) and Duncan Honeybourne ( piano ) and premiered in Weymouth, Dorset on 12 November 2008 ; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra for pianist Duncan Honeybourne and the Central England Ensemble, conducted by Anthony Bradbury in Birmingham Town Hall on 1 March 2009, and given again by the same artists in Coventry Cathedral in July 2010 ; Sonata for Contrabass Flute and Piano for Peter Sheridan, premiered in 2009 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; and Sonata for Clarinet and Piano for clarinettist Angus Merion and Duncan Honeybourne, premiered in Salisbury, UK in January 2010.

From the ages of 11 to 19 he worked as a clerk in Vienna, Pressburg ( now Bratislava, Slovakia ), and Prague, teaching himself to play the violin.

Beethoven also produced numerous fragments of larger-scale works, including a symphonic movement ( also written in C minor ), a violin concerto, an oboe concerto, an early draft of his B-flat Piano concerto ( both now vanished ), and a concertante for piano, flute and bassoon.

Simultaneously, he pursued his musical studies at the conservatory, receiving sound training in counterpoint and harmony, as well in the violin and piano.

Amati is the name of a family of Italian violin makers, who flourished at Cremona from about 1549 to 1740.

The first public performance was given by Beethoven himself, Ignaz Schuppanzigh ( violin ) and Josef Linke ( cello ) at the Viennese hotel Zum römischen Kaiser on 11 April 1814, as his deafness continued to encroach upon his ability as a performer.

It is probable that Mozart's first violin sonatas, written at the age of seven, were modeled on Alberti's work, although Mozart's examples are generally considered superior.

ELO's debut concert took place on 15 April 1972 at The Fox & Hounds Pub in Croydon, U. K. with a line-up of Wood, Lynne, Bevan, Bill Hunt ( horns, keyboards ), Wilfred Gibson ( violin ), Hugh McDowell ( cello ), Mike Edwards, Andy Craig ( cello ) and Richard Tandy on bass.

In Germany, violin manufacturer Mr. Meisel from Klingenthal bought a harmonica with chambers ( Kanzellen ) at the Exhibition in Braunschweig in 1824.

The Dharma at Big Sur ( 2003 ): A piece for solo electric six-string violin and orchestra.

Adams begins the movement with a repeated, scale-like eight-note melody in the violin and going into the second measure, it appears as if he will continue this, but instead of starting at the bottom again, the violin continues upward.

Because his relationship with his new stepmother was less than happy, in January 1942 Karlheinz became a boarder at the teachers ' training college in Xanten, where he continued his piano training and also studied oboe and violin ( Kurtz 1992, 18 ).

Perhaps the most frequently-performed of his symphonies are No. 4, for strings, and No. 6 ; probably his most widely-known work, through performances and recordings, is his Concerto funebre for violin and strings, composed at the beginning of World War II and making use of a Hussite chorale and a Russian revolutionary song of 1905.

Desmond began playing violin at a young age, though his father forbade him to play it.

Solomon played his violin at several well-known hotels in the City of Saratoga Springs ; however, he found its seasonal cycles of employment difficult.

Solomon worked at different jobs: building the Champlain Canal and the railroad, as a carpenter, and playing his violin.

Lithman's guitar playing technique earned him the nickname Snakefinger, after his frantic playing on the violin during the performance with the Residents at The Boarding House in San Francisco 1971, where his fingers ' speed made them look like snakes in the eyes of the less-musically proficient, but imaginative Residents.

The parts of a violin are usually made from different types of wood ( although electric violins may not be made of wood at all, since their sound may not be dependent on specific acoustic characteristics of the instrument's construction ), and it is usually strung with gut, nylon or other synthetic, or steel strings.

Small violas for children typically start at, which is equivalent to a half-size violin.

Broken consorts combined a mixture of different instruments — a small band, essentially — usually comprising a gathering of social amateurs and typically including such instruments as a bass viol, a lute or orpharion ( a wire-strung lute, metal-fretted, flat-backed, and festoon-shaped ), a cittern, a treble viol ( or violin, as time progressed ), sometimes an early keyboard instrument ( virginal, spinet, or harpsichord ), and whatever other instruments or players ( or singers ) might be available at the moment.

For example when a violin string is displaced, transverse waves propagate out to where the string is held in place at the bridge and the nut, where the waves are reflected back.

* Niccolò Paganini debuts as a violin virtuoso at age 11.

Mercadante studied flute, violin and composition at the conservatory in Naples, and organized concerts among his compatriots.

Sousa started his music education by playing the violin as a pupil of John Esputa and George Felix Benkert ( born 1831 ) for harmony and musical composition at the age of six.

Nance, however, added violin to the instrumental colors Ellington had at his disposal.

* Josef Hassid: Polish violin prodigy and schizophrenic who died at 26.