Hamma, Fridolin 14.dec.1818-14.jun.1892 Germany Wurttemberg, Wurmlingen - Stuttgart
organist/choirmaster, 1840 in Schaffhausen, 1842 stadtorganist in Meersburg am Bodensee, in Meersburg he discovered the origin of the Marseillaise in the Credo of a mass by Holtzmann which induced a flood of opinions and reactions, as a Republican he took part in the battle of Naples during the Italian Revolution and a year later in the uprisings in Baden after which he had to flee to Switzerland until he got amnesty and could return to Baden, professor at the Cantonsgesangschule in Burgdorf, Ghent Belgium, organist in Ettlingen near Karlsruhe, teacher piano and singing in Neustadt am Harz, director of the music school in Neustadt, 1864 founder of Hamma & Co. violin maker and dealer in Stuttgart, 1877 director of Central-Musik-Magazin in Stuttgart

[Mendel 1874 and Brown 1886 give erroneously born Fridingen Wurttemberg]

Title	Parts

Nationalmarsch der Deutschen pub Heckel, Mannheim 1848
[] Abschied "Muss i denn, muss i denn zum stadtle naus". Schwabisches volkslied. TTBB music by F. Hamma - ?Fridolin pub E. Feuchtinger, Regensburg
[] (details unknown). Ballets, Operettas, Gesange und zahlreiche Freiheitslieder
writing: Meister Deutscher Geigenbaukunst. German violin makers. A critical dictionary of German violin makers, with a series of plates illustrating characteristic and fine examples of their work. by Fridolin Hamma, english translation by Walter Stewart publisher W. Reeves, London 1961

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