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Louis van Waefelghen
Louis van Waefelghem (13 January 1840 in Bruges – 19 June 1908 in Paris) was a Belgian violinist, violist and one of the greatest viola d'amore players of the 19th century. He also composed several works and made transcriptions for viola and viola d'amore.
Waefelghem was educated at the Athénée Royal in Bruges and then studied violin with Lambert Joseph Meerts at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels. After finding success as a violinist in Germany and at the Opera House in Budapest, he moved to Paris in 1863 to pursue a career as a performer on viola and viola d'amore. He played in the orchestra of the Paris Opera in 1868 and also in the Pasdeloup Orchestra. Waefelghem was Examiner of the Viola at the Conservatoire de Paris before Théophile Laforge was appointed the first Professor of Viola in 1894. His reputation as a gifted violist quickly spread and, after the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), he traveled to London where he played in the Royal Opera orchestra and at chamber concerts of the Musical Union with Joseph Joachim, Leopold Auer, Henri Vieuxtemps, Camillo Sivori, Pablo de Sarasate, and others. From 1875 he was the violist of the Quatuor Marsick, Guillaume Rémy, Jules Delsart and founder Martin Pierre Marsick, one of the best and most famous string quartets in Paris of the time. He also a member of the Quatuor Geloso and of Ovide Musin's quartet with Metzger and Vander Gucht. Waefelghem was the principal violist with the Orchestre Lamoureux from 1881 to 1895.
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In 1895 Waefelghem, along with colleagues Laurent Grillet (hurdy-gurdy), Louis Diémer (harpsichord) and Jules Delsart (viola da gamba), founded the Société des Instruments Anciens. The ensemble gave their début at the Salle Pleyel
in Paris on 2 May 1895 and performed throughout Europe with great
success. Thereafter Waefelghem devoted himself entirely to the revival
and study of the viola d'amore. He quickly became one of the greatest
viola d'amore players of the 19th century, and being a highly
enthusiastic researcher, restored to the world the complete library of
music for the instrument which had sunk into oblivion.
The University of Edinburgh - Musical instruments museum - Bow for viola d'amore
The round, concave pernambuco stick has copper (?) or copper-coloured
thread (?) winding and ends in a modern head with an ivory headface with
diagonal scratches on the face of the tip. The screw-mechanism,
rounded, ebony frog has a metal ferrule with a wooden ferrule wedge, a
mother-of-pearl slide, and mother-of-pearl decorative eyes.The ebony
button is covered in bone and is octagonal with a rim.Weight: 83.Hair
length: 601.Balance point: 269.5.Head height: 30.0.Head width: 13.4.Face
length: 29.4.Tip diameter: 8.15.Frog diameter: 10.4 (measured 150 from
the end to avoid the winding).Nipple range: 1.7 to 2.2.Period of
oscillation: 1.35.Distance from pivot to tail: 74.85.Button length:
15.7.Ferrule width: 13.95.Frog + stick height: 31.7.Frog top length:
52.3.
The University of Edinburgh - Musical instruments museum - Viola d'amore
Soundboard of spruce; back, ribs, neck and head of sycamore;
fingerboard, tailpiece and tail-gut protector of ebony; pegs and endpin
of rosewood. Soundboard jointed in centre, not bookmatched, the grain on
the bass side is wider than the treble. Flame sound-holes.
Ebony/sycamore/ebony purfling. Varnish has been worn away where the chin
rests on the soundboard. Locating holes on the soundboard at the top
(plugged) and bottom (unplugged). Arch over soundboard 22mm. Golden
colour varnish. Two piece back, deep figure rising from the centre to
the edges. Neck length 150; fingerboard length 254, width at nut 36.0,
at bottom 52.5.
The University of Edinburgh - Musical instruments museum - Thomas Hulinzky, Viola d'amore, Prague 1782
Very thickly applied reddish brown varnish,
cracked on the soundboard and head. Soundboard of spruce. Flame
sound-holes. Beard marks on either side of the tailpiece.
ebony/sycamore/ebony purfling around the edges of soundboard. Rosewood
or ebony edging piece to protect the soundboard edge wood. 2 piece back,
separate ribs for either side of lower bout. Sycamore back and ribs
with medium figure, figure on back close to the horizontal but descends
from the centre. Fingerboard, nut and tailpiece of ebony; neck and head
of sycamore. Neck 151 long; fingerboard 246 long, 37.2 wide at nut, 55.4
wide at bottom. Interior soundpost plate width c50; fold plate width
c20. Pegs of boxwood with ebony dots. Soundpost in position
http://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17250
http://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17250
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