Violinwiki

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Founded by:	Pavel Spacek
Status:	Active
Language:	English
Edit mode:	ConfirmEmail
Wiki engine:	MediaWiki
Wiki license:	Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
Main topic:	Classical music
Backups:	2018-05-20

Wiki size:

5,247 article pages see stats

(As of: 2023-08-08)

Violinwiki, a wiki site hosted in the European Union (EU) country of the Czech Republic, is an online specialised encyclopaedia with one topic: the classical musical instrument; the four-stringed violin.

This wide topic – acoustic violin – further branches into the articles containing:

• the biographies of composers who composed for the violin;
• the biographies of violin pedagogues; their life and the published works;
• the biographies of luthiers and bow makers;
• the lists of composer's works for violin or works containing a violin part;
• etude analysis: what skill the etude develops, which piece/s it is a preparation for, technical and musical advice for the given etude;
• technical and musical analysis of the pieces: fingering, bowing, phrasing, teaching points, pitfalls for the students of the piece and alternative interpretations for pieces from Twinkle to Tchaikovsky;
• the descriptions and explanations of various violin techniques accompanied by photos and videos;
• the description of violin books – method books, scale books, etude books, from Geminiani to Ševčík;
• the description of the instrument;
• information about the violin strings.

External links

• Violinwiki — at WikiApiary.com (founded 2011), the wiki site for detailed information on all MediaWiki-powered websites