Hammerschwang School
Johann Bucher
Hammerschwang, 1792–1856
Worked for Stauffer at Vienna. Established own workshop there in 1816 at 59 St Ulrich Rofranogasse. Inventor of the ‘Moschin’ guitars. Principally a guitar maker, but a few violins extant with his label. Johann Bucher / Geigen u. Guitarrmacher in Wien / St. Ulrich Rofranogasse No. 59. — John Dilworth
Biographies
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John Dilworth+
BUCHER, Johann Born 1792 Hammerschwang,Württemberg Germany, died 1856 Vienna Austria. Worked for Stauffer at Vienna. Established own workshop there in 1816 at 59 St Ulrich Rofranogasse. Inventor of the ‘Moschin’ guitars. Principally a guitar maker, but a few violins extant with his label. Johann Bucher / Geigen u. Guitarrmacher in Wien / St. Ulrich Rofranogasse No. 59.
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Er kam als Knabe nach Wien zu J. G. Stauffer in die Lehre, gründete
schon 1816 sein eigenes, heute noch blühendes Geschäft und brachte es bald zu
Ansehen, so dass er schon in den dreissiger Jahren in Schuberth’s Lexikon unter
den hervorragenden neueren Geigenmachern aufgeführt wird. Seine Geigen
baute er nach italienischen Meistern; hauptsächlich verlegte er sich auf den Bau
von Guitarren, die er nach Legnani, Stauffer u. A. baute.
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