Emanuel Wirth was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

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Wirth was born in Žlutice

Žlutice

Žlutice is a town and municipality in Karlovy Vary District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of 53.03 km² and as of 2007 it had a population of 2,653....

 (German: Luditz) in northwestern Bohemia

Bohemia

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. As Joseph Joachim

Joseph Joachim

Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant violinists of the 19th century.-Origins:...

's assistant at the Hochschule für Musik (Berlin)

Berlin University of the Arts

The Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK is a public art school in Berlin, Germany, one of the four universities in the city...

, he taught violin and viola. August Wilhelmj

August Wilhelmj

August Wilhelmj was a German violinist and teacher.Wilhelmj was a child prodigy. When Henriette Sontag heard him in 1852, when he was seven, she said "You will be the German Paganini"...

 said he was the best violin teacher of his generation. His students included Albert Stoessel

Albert Stoessel

Albert Frederic Stoessel was an American composer, violinist and conductor.He was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1894. He studied music at the Berlin Hochschule as a pupil of Emanuel Wirth and Willy Hess...

 and Edmund Severn

Edmund Severn

Edmund Severn was an American composer and violinist. Born in England, in Nottingham, he moved to the United States at four, settling in Hartford, Connecticut and studying violin with his father; he later took further musical study in Berlin...

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Wirth played viola in the famous string quartet of its time, the Joachim Quartet. He married Julia Wirth née Stockhausen (1886–1964), daughter of the singer and voice teacher Julius Stockhausen

Julius Stockhausen

Julius Christian Stockhausen was a German singer and singing master.- Life :Stockhausens' parents, Franz Stockhausen Sr...

. Wirth died in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

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