Sebastian Klotz (18 January 1696 – 20 January 1775) was a German
violin
The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
maker, one of three sons of
Mathias Klotz.
Klotz was born in
Mittenwald
Mittenwald () is a German municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria.
Geography
Mittenwald is located approximately 16 kilometres to the south-east of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It is situated in the Valley of the river Isar, ...
on 18 January 1696, the second son of
Mathias Klotz, from whom he learnt the art of violin making. On 15 May 1724, he married Maria Rosina Mayr, with whom he had eleven children.
Three of these children (Georg II Karl, Aegidius Sebastian and Joseph I Thomas) continued the family tradition of violin making.
[ Other individuals trained by Klotz include Anton and Andreas Gäßler and Johann Georg Psenner.][
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See also
* Klotz (violin makers)
Klotz is a family of violin makers. Members of the Klotz (or Kloz) family have made violins in Mittenwald, Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , i ...
References
1696 births
1775 deaths
18th-century German artisans
Bowed string instrument makers
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