最值得收藏的当代德国提琴
恩斯特·海因里希·罗斯 (Ernst Heinrich Roth) ，德国提琴制作界最知名的制琴师之一。100 多年来，Roth家族的制琴史其实就是德国近代制琴史的缩影。（他的提琴也如那些19-20世纪意大利著名的制琴师一样，在当时就被很多东欧的制琴师及工作室仿制，造成了市面上真假琴共存的局面。）
恩斯特·海因里希·罗斯 (Ernst Heinrich Roth) 的儿子恩斯特·海因里希·罗斯二世 (Ernst Heinrich Roth II) 于 1921 年移居美国，并与他的公司 Scherl & Roth 一起成为北美领先的提琴供应商之一。 他的兄弟留在德国，学习小提琴制作艺术，并在其父亲 1948 年去世后接管了家族企业。1953 年，他们离开了东德，在西德的法兰克尼亚小镇布本罗伊特重建“Ernst Heinrich Roth”公司。 他们很快就恢复到二战前的成功。 如今“Ernst Heinrich Roth”公司由 Ernst Heinrich III Roth 和他的儿子Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Roth 管理，他们继承祖上的工艺，不断的制作高品质的提琴，同时也为Ernst Heinrich Roth的提琴进行鉴定，他们作为传统的手工艺者，制琴大师，多次被德国的媒体报道，也登上过The stard杂志的封面，并多次为德国电视台拍摄有关德国制琴师及德国制琴史的纪录片。
Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Roth在 1992 年和 2009 年的工作中获得了”德国乐器奖”（ German musical instrument prize）。Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Roth的提琴的超高品质被欧洲，美国及日本的音乐家所喜爱，泛泛琴韵有幸于2017年同Roth家族达成合作伙伴关系，不断为中国的音乐家提供Roth的提琴。（小提、中提、大提、低音提琴）
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Ernst Heinrich Roth - a rediscovered master
Ernst Heinrich Roth has ranked among the best internationally known names in German violin making for over 100 years. The roots of the Bubenreuth-based workshop Ernst Heinrich Roth lead back to the Vogtland violin-making town of Markneukirchen – and to a master of the art whose major successes paradoxically led Ernst Heinrich Roth to be profoundly underestimated.
The apprenticeship and journeyman years of the young Ernst Heinrich Roth
Ernst Heinrich Roth, born in 1877, had the ideal prerequisites for attaining musical greatness. As talented musician who played several instruments and had perfect pitch, Ernst Heinrich Roth began his career by completing his training in the atelier founded by his father, Gustav Robert Roth, in 1873. Ernst Heinrich Roth then studied under violin makers in Austria, Hungary, Russia and France and later returned to his home country with extensive knowledge of the art. His skill and musical training helped Ernst Heinrich Roth become one of the finest craftsmen of the 20th century – and one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the field.
Ernst Heinrich Roth – Characteristics of his violin making oeuvre
Ernst Heinrich Roth violins were mostly patterned after works by Stradivari or Guarneri; his copies demonstrated aesthetic perfection and produced ideal sounds. The violin tops were made of fine-grained Italian spruce, and the backs were of deeply flamed maple, often as a single piece. The Ernst Heinrich Roth violins of the 1920s and early 1930s shared these defining characteristics of violin material quality. Ernst Heinrich Roth violins also shared an oil-based varnish, usually of reddish-brown colour on a golden background, and featured masterful craftsmanship applied with meticulous care. Despite the quality of his work, the exceptional value of Ernst Heinrich Roth's master violins was long overshadowed by the major sales successes of his workshop, which Ernst Heinrich Roth jointly founded with his cousin Gustav August Ficker in 1902.
Family traditions in the footsteps of Ernst Heinrich Roth
They quickly gained a foothold on the international market thanks to the broad range of quality and prices they offered. Ernst Heinrich Roth's son Ernst Heinrich Roth II emigrated to the US in 1921 and became one of the leading instrument dealers in North America with his company, Scherl & Roth. His brother Gustav Albert Roth stayed in Germany, learned the art of violin making and took over the family business after their father died in 1948. The family fortune was expropriated in 1953, at which point they left Saxony in East Germany, the GDR, and re-established the business of “Ernst Heinrich Roth” in the Franconian town of Bubenreuth in West Germany. They were quickly able to return to the entrepreneurial successes they enjoyed before the war. Nowadays, a branch office in the Markneukirchen workshop represents the company where it first originated; business is managed by Ernst Heinrich III Roth and his son Wilhelm Roth, who were awarded the German musical instrument prize for their work in 1992 and 2009.
