The Violoncello and Its History
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Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski is the author of The Violoncello and Its History. The preface says that the history of the viola da gamba precedes the history of the violoncello, for the reason that this instrument must be considered the precursor of the violoncello. The text quotes Prätorius, who says that gamba is an Italian word meaning a leg and that the former kind is so called from having been held between the legs.
A biographical entry says that one of the pupils mentioned above was born on November 8, 1792, at Zeitz, the son of the organist at St. Thomas’s Church, Leipsic, Joh. Georg Hermann Voigt. The entry also says that, besides his work as organist, a man played the violoncello with the orchestra of the theatre in the Gewandhaus at Leipsic.
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