# Emanuel Wirth
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{{Short description|German violinist and violist (1842–1923)}}
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[[File:Joachim Quartett.jpg|300px|thumb|right| The famous Joachim Quartett. From left to right: [Robert Hausmann](/source/Robert_Hausmann) (cello), [Joseph Joachim](/source/Joseph_Joachim) (1. violin), Emanuel Wirth (viola) and [Karel Halíř](/source/Karel_Hal%C3%AD%C5%99) (2. violin)]]
'''Emanuel Wirth''' (18 October 1842{{spaced ndash}}5 January 1923) was a [German](/source/Germans) [violin](/source/violin)ist and [violist](/source/Viola).
Wirth was born in [Žlutice](/source/%C5%BDlutice){{Cn|date=January 2024}} in western [Bohemia](/source/Bohemia) and studied violin at the [Prague Conservatory](/source/Prague_Conservatory). He then became the concertmaster of the opera in [Rotterdam](/source/Rotterdam), where he led his own [string quartet](/source/string_quartet), and eventually he joined the [Joachim String Quartet](/source/Joachim_Quartet) along with cellist [Robert Hausmann](/source/Robert_Hausmann) and pianist [Heinrich Barth](/source/Heinrich_Barth). He remained in the quartet for 30 seasons from 13 October 1877 to 13 May 1907 (year of Joachim's death).[{{Cite book |last1=Avins |first1=Styra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtnpEAAAQBAJ&dq=Emanuel+Wirth&pg=PA78 |title=The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim |last2=Borchard |first2=Beatrix |last3=Crow |first3=Kimberly |date=2021 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-1-78327-654-7 |pages=151 |language=en}}]
During his time at the Joachim Quartet, Wirth joined the faculty at the [Berlin University of the Arts](/source/Berlin_University_of_the_Arts) to become [Joseph Joachim](/source/Joseph_Joachim)'s assistant and taught violin and [viola](/source/viola). Some of his students included [Albert Stoessel](/source/Albert_Stoessel), [Edmund Severn](/source/Edmund_Severn), and [Agnes Tschetschulin](/source/Agnes_Tschetschulin).