Emanuel Wirth

Emanuel Wirth (18 October 18425 January 1923) was a

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ist and

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. Wirth was born in

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(German: Luditz) in western Bohemia. As

Joseph Joachim Joseph Joachim (28 June 1831 – 15 August 1907) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of ...

's assistant at the Hochschule für Musik (Berlin), he taught violin and

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. August Wilhelmj said he was the best violin teacher of his generation. His students included Albert Stoessel,

Edmund Severn Edmund Severn (December 10, 1862 – May 14, 1942) was an American composer and violinist. Born in England, in Nottingham, he moved to the United States at four, settling in Hartford, Connecticut and studying violin with his father; he later stu ...

, and Agnes Tschetschulin. Wirth played viola in the famous string quartet of its time, the Joachim Quartet. Wirth died in

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. His son Joseph Wirth married Julia Wirth née Stockhausen (1886–1964), daughter of the singer and voice teacher

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. 1842 births 1923 deaths People from Žlutice German Bohemian people German classical violinists Male classical violinists German male violinists German classical violists German music educators 19th-century German musicians 19th-century German male musicians {{violinist-stub