Engelbert Röntgen
Engelbert Röntgen was a German violinist, composer, and music teacher. Born Engelbert Johann Matthias Carel Röntgen in Deventer on September 30, 1829, he also worked as a violist and concertmaster.
As a young man, he considered pursuing music or painting. In 1848, he entered the Leipzig Conservatory, where he studied violin with Ferdinand David. After completing his studies, he became concertmaster of the second violins in the Gewandhaus Orchestra. After David's death in 1873, Röntgen and Heinrich Schradieck jointly led the first violins.
Röntgen taught at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1857 to 1874. Following a conflict with its director, Schleinitz, he taught at a private conservatory founded by Schradieck.
His editing of Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartets earned high recognition from his contemporaries. Ethel Smyth described Röntgen's home and his family's music-making there in her memoirs as the essence of the German musical spirit. Röntgen was married to pianist Pauline Klengel and was the father of Julius Röntgen.