Hans Adam Wurlitzer
1732-1795 (active) · German
Biography
Hans Adam Wurlitzer was famous as a violin maker at Markneukirchen, Germany, from 1732 to 1795. He is noted in this text as the great-great-grandfather of the present heads of the house of Wurlitzer, with every Wurlitzer since him having been a maker of musical instruments, originally working entirely by hand long before the family's later mechanized factory production near Niagara Falls. Hans Adam Wurlitzer is named in the text as the forebear of the Wurlitzer family, remarked upon as the ancestor of a line of "fiddle makers" whose descendants built the large Wurlitzer musical instrument house. The author speculates, without further detail, that he must have been a great genius to have originated such a family of instrument makers.
Highlights
- Renowned violin maker at Markneukirchen, Germany, active from 1732 to 1795.
- Great-great-grandfather of the present heads of the Wurlitzer musical instrument house.
- Described as the ancestor of the Wurlitzer family of "fiddle makers"
Source
Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. II (1913), pp. 210, 215.
Public domain.