What are the violin making schools at home and abroad?

Zheng Quan: Italy has the Clemonese Violin Making School, which is the most famous international violin making school in the world. It has a great influence all over the world. Many of the best producers from European and American countries graduated from this school. In recent years, this school has been changed to a five-year system. After graduation, students can enter university. Because it needs to be connected with university courses, its cultural courses are very important;

There is Mittenwald German Violin Making School in Germany. It's a technical secondary school. The enrollment age of students must not exceed 19 years. This is also one of the most famous violin making schools in the world. There are many outstanding students who have a great influence on the formation of the German violin making school. Because many German violin makers later immigrated to the United States, most of the teachers from American violin making schools graduated from this school, which had a particularly great impact on the American violin making industry;

France has "Mircou" The violin making school is the birthplace of the French school.

There are two violin making schools in the UK.

In addition to these national schools, there are also some smaller private schools - Salt Lake City and Chicago in the United States, Tokyo and Nagoya in Japan, etc.

The Violin Production Research Center of our country’s Central Conservatory of Music is a department-level unit that teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students. The violin production major of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music is located in the Orchestral Department. It is the earliest violin production undergraduate program in my country. Teaching school.

Shenyang Conservatory of Music and Sichuan Conservatory of Music both have violin making majors, and many music conservatories are preparing to establish this major. Like other music majors, they study performance and chamber music, as well as related courses at the conservatory.

It should be said that foreign schools focus more on the traditional skills of violin making and some theoretical courses. It is preparation for professional producers. Our major is based on university teaching level and pays more attention to scientific research and design. For this reason, my country's violin making major has teaching content in some scientific subjects such as music acoustics, wood science, and mechanical drawing.

From the perspective of music education, our students have high musical accomplishment and musical literacy. Foreign students only learn violin playing when they arrive at school. Our students are generally at the performance level of the middle school attached to the Conservatory of Music; students who have graduated from high school have also a very high level of performance.

What is inferior to foreign countries is that we lack a basic understanding of Western culture and violin culture. Foreign violin making is inseparable from music, architecture, sculpture, and fine arts, and they are all part of Western culture and art. Due to the different cultural atmosphere, our students have relatively limited exposure to other Western art categories. There is also the fact that our students’ basic research on aesthetics is not enough.