Adrian Hans Eduard Rappoldi (13 September 1876 – 12 October 1948) was a German violinist, son of

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and Laura Rappoldi. Born in Berlin, he studied at the Dresden Conservatory with

Leopold Auer Leopold von Auer (; June 7, 1845July 15, 1930) was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and teachers. Early life and career Auer was born in ...

(violin) and

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(composition), then in Berlin with

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and

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. From a young age, he performed with his mother. He was first violinist in the Benjamin Bilse orchestra, and then worked as a

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in the Bilsesche Kapelle, later in Teplitz, Chemnitz and Helsinki, and from 1909 succeeded

Henri Petri Henri Willem Petri (5 April 1856 – 7 April 1914) was a Dutch violinist, music pedagogue, composer and arranger who spent his entire career in Germany. Life Born in Zeist, Petri came from a musical family. His father was oboist in the city o ...

at the Dresden Conservatory. In 1910, he returned to Dresden, where he taught at the local Conservatory. Rappoldi published two small collections of

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s (consisting partly of transcriptions, partly of his own works of didactic plan). He translated into German "The School of Violin Playing" by Mathieu Crikboma (1929). The name "Rappoldi" bears the name of the violin by

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(1719), acquired by the musician in 1910.1719 – Violino "Rappoldi"
/ref> Rappoldi died in

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at the age of 72.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rappoldi, Adrian German classical violinists German male classical violinists 19th-century German violinists 20th-century German violinists German music educators 1876 births 1948 deaths Musicians from Berlin 19th-century German male musicians 20th-century German male musicians