Full range of stringed instruments made between 1758 and 1764. Inventions: a mechanism to turn music pages with the foot; endless screw for violin tuning; use of sponges or fungus instead of leather for piano hammers.*
1765 - left Pennsylvania for Herrnhut, Germany, and never returned to America.
Source: Beatrice B Garvan and Charles F Hummel, "The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of Their Arts 1683-1850," (PMA: 1982), p. 156
*Moravian Historical Society
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Thought to have made the first violin in the Colonial United States, John Antes is considered by many scholars to be the first native-born American composer of chamber music. While a Moravian missionary in Egypt in 1779, John was tortured and nearly beaten to death.
Source: "Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (1764-1820) - A Brief History" by Richard Lee Gleason
Full range of stringed instruments made between 1758 and 1764. Inventions: a mechanism to turn music pages with the foot; endless screw for violin tuning; use of sponges or fungus instead of leather for piano hammers.*
1765 - left Pennsylvania for Herrnhut, Germany, and never returned to America.
Source: Beatrice B Garvan and Charles F Hummel, "The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of Their Arts 1683-1850," (PMA: 1982), p. 156
*Moravian Historical Society
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Thought to have made the first violin in the Colonial United States, John Antes is considered by many scholars to be the first native-born American composer of chamber music. While a Moravian missionary in Egypt in 1779, John was tortured and nearly beaten to death.
Source: "Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (1764-1820) - A Brief History" by Richard Lee Gleason
Family Members
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Anna Catharine Antes Ernst
1726–1816
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Anna Margaretta Antes Latrobe
1728–1794
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Col Philip Frederick Antes
1730–1801
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Col William "Bill" Antes/Antis
1731–1810
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Elizabetha Christina Antes Pomp
1734–1812
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LTC John Henry Antes
1736–1820
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Jacob Antes
1738–1739
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Mary Magdalene Antes Ebbing
1742–1811
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Benigna Antes
1748–1760
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