Description

Emile Mennesson (1842-1920)’s tasteful appearance of this violin and its excellent sound reveal his intense involvement with the Mirecourt violin making tradition, especially with the legacy of Honoré Derazey, which he had come to know not least through his later partner Georges Deroux – a Derazey student and influential teacher for many talented Mirecourt violin makers of the time. The son of a well-established family of music dealers and piano makers in Reims, Mennesson had his own artistic home in violin making and ran his workshop comparatively free of economic constraints.The one-piece back of beautiful, tightly and powerfully flamed maple is a consummate detail typical of Mennesson’s best work. For it, he exclusively used the dated and numbered original label that can be found inside the body.