Karl Adam Horlein

b. 1829 at Winkelhof, near Wurzburg. Pupil of Joseph Vauchel; later he worked for three years in Vienna, chiefly under Anton Hoffmann, but also under Gabriel Lembock. In 1853 he settled in Kitzingen, Bavaria; but in 1866 moved to Wurzburg. where he remained. Both as a maker of new instruments and as a repairer of old ones he had a great reputation. In 1875, under Professor Hermann Ritter's direction, he made a " viola alta " exactly on the principles laid down in the little book called " Die Geschichte der Viola Alta" (Leipzig, 1877); it had a full, sonorous tone. He died 1902.