Viola d'amore (XVII-XVIII century?), 4 strings and 5 resonance strings

Teste

Viola da gamba (Norbert Gedler, Würzburg 1721)


Testa scolpita











Testa di viola d'amore (anonimo boemo, XVIII secolo)

Testa di viola d'amore a 7 corde costruita da Robert Blaszauer

Viola d'amore by Desiderio Quercetani (Parma)

La viola, costruita per il violinista Fabio Biondi, appartiene ora a Gianni Maraldi, che ha sostuito il riccio originale con una testa da lui scolpita.

News from the past .....

CONCERTS OF THE WEEK

Dec 29, 1918, Sunday
Section: Drama, Music, Art, Page 45, 1892 words

DELAYED out West, Andre Messager, leader of the Paris Conservation Orchestra, will not be conductor at the New York Symphony Society's matinee in Aeollan Hall today. Walter Damrosch will appear as usual, directing Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony, Lorenziti's suite for viole d'amour, with Henri Casadesus, and Lalo's overture to "Le Roi d'Ys."

Viola d'amore by Johannes Schorn, Salzburg 1698 (Museum of Instruments, Berlin)

James Grassineau - A Musical Dictionary (London, 1740)

Viola d'amore by Johann Eberle (Prag, 1743)