That distinction, and his skillful use of the publicity, increased his business and allowed him to enlarge his operation, ultimately to 25 workmen. In l873, Schwarzer entered three of his zithers in the Vienna Exposition and was awarded the “Gold Medal of Progress”, the highest award of the fair, for his entry.
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His reputation as a zither maker spread and in a few years he was able to work full time making various models of the concert zither, importing stylish components like German silver frets, mother-of-pearl inlay, ivory and rare woods from abroad. Franz became active in the Washington “Turn Verein” and the “Liederkranz” and was elected the first Fire Chief of the town. Before the Civil War Washington had become a bi-lingual, bi-cultural town, as were most of the counties in the lower Missouri valley, following heavy German migration which had begun in the l830s. In Washington they lived in modest circumstances while Franz occasionally fabricated a zither for one of his friends. The Schwarzers, however, found pioneer life on the land too difficult and soon moved, in l867, to nearby Washington, a prospering town on the Missouri River where Franz found a ready market for his hand-crafted furniture.
Many of their neighbors were German peasant farmers who were thriving in the New World. The dwelling there was a two room log cabin with a dirt floor. In New York, they bought property in Missouri from a land agent which was not the idyllic estate they had expected. They probably had come to America in search of economic success in the face of a prolonged economic slump in the Austrian handicraft system. Sadly, they had lost an infant son before they immigrated.
Before their marriage, Josephine had a short career as a stage actress. In the spring of l866 Schwarzer and his wife, Josephine, came to America. After college, he studied zither under the highly regarded composer, Ludwig Ritter Von Ditrich. Franz Schwarzer attended the Polytechnic Institute of Vienna, where he studied architecture and wood working. The son of a building contractor, he also learned the building trades. In this article, George Bocklage, Washington Historical Society secretary, details the life of this innovator, musician and businessman and the exhibit which endeavors to preserve his life and legacy.įranz Schwarzer was born in the town of Olmutz, Austria in 1828. Schwarzer’s zithers competed favorably with those of European makers and were sold all over the world. Send us feedback about these examples.Over 10,000 Schwarzer instruments, with the majority being zithers, were made in Washington, Missouri by Austrian immigrant Franz Schwarzer, beginning in l866. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'zither.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 At a large Asian American community picnic in Griffith Park in the early 1970s, Kuramoto spotted June Okida playing the koto, a zither-like instrument that typically has 13 strings. New York Times, Elsewhere, the film rests on the shoulders of Lyle Vincent’s refined cinematography, Michael Abels’ playful zither score and Blackk’s inquisitive performance as an artist trying to make sense of uncertain times through his art.
2022 Leontovych’s more dramatic works emulated the tradition of the Kobzars, the Ukrainian bards and history bearers who accompanied themselves on the bandura, a multistringed plucked instrument similar to a zither. 2019 Arman said that at some point his father taught himself to play the Santoor, a Persian instrument akin to a zither or a hammered dulcimer. Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023 Already, Wang Jue’s erratic score, which has its generic passages but is mostly an eccentric, atonal pleasure, is establishing a feeling of unease, with vaguely menacing drones brewing behind twanging strings that sound like Ennio Morricone got his hands on a zither while in a bad mood. Recent Examples on the Web Gone, too, were their instruments: drums, flutes, gongs, two varieties of zither, and a towering mouth organ with pipes like city spires.
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