Violin Wizard is all about violin and violin music. It has details and links  on all aspects of violin such as buying violin, tuning violin, playing the violin, violin music and composers, violin sheet music and FAQ on violin.  Also are given links to where you can buy anything related to violin at good price. 

Violin Wizard is a tribute to the Violin often called as "The King of Orchestra". No other instrument can do what violin can. Violin can be soft lyric to extreme dramatic. It comes closest to the human voice and violin’s crescendos and diminuendos are unmatched by any other instrument. 

Violin history

The 4 stringed violin history dates back to 1555. Andrea Amati can be called as the father of modern day violin. He made the first violin with four strings in 1555. The oldest surviving violin by the label inside, made by Andrea Amati  known as the "Charles IX,"   was made in Cremona in 1560. During the 17th and early 18th centuries the art of violin making reached unprecedented heights in the hands of the Italians Antonio Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri as well as the Austrian Jacob Stainer. Stradivari was an apprentice to Nicolo Amati, Andrea Amati's grandson. The stradivarius violin made in 1716 remains now in  Ashmolean Museum of Oxford in pristine condition. Stradivarius violins and Guarneri violins are the most sought-after instruments by both collectors and performers.

Initially, the violin  was used to accompany dancing or to double voice parts in vocal music and was considered a musical instrument of low status/class. In 1600 through its use in operas by renowned composers like Claudio Monteverdi  violins' status grew. The violins' prestige further grew during the Baroque period, by such celebrated figures in music as Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Tartini and Johann Sebastian Bach.

The Violin enjoyed a vital place in instrumental music ensembles by the mid 18th century. In the 19th century, the violins'  rise to glory continued in the hands of virtuoso violinists such as Nicolò Paganini, Pablo de Sarasate, Henri Vieuxtemps, Joseph Joachim and Eugene Ysaye. In the 20th century the violin achieved new  technical and artistic heights. Noted violinists of this time are Jascha Heifetz, David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern and Fritz Kreisler.