DHV:
364
Tourin ID:
HARN 01
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Cremona
Stephanus
De Fantis
Date:
1558
Label Text:
Stephanus de Fa[n]tis, 1558 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Guitar
Current Location:
A
Vienna
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Harnoncourt, Nikolaus [heirs]
Sound Holes:
C*
Catalog Number:
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Prof. Maximilian Jeller, Graz, 1916-54; Josef Christoph von Wenger-Wiesenburg and his heirs (Hall, later Innsbruck), -1916; Königliche Damenstift, Hall (Tirol), -1781; Archduchess Magdalena of Tirol, when she entered the Damenstift in 1569
Measurements:
Body Length:
84.2
String Length:
77.8
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
35.8
Middle Width:
26.5
Bottom Width:
43.9
Information
Source:
Harnoncourt 2023 (P20); Harnoncourt 2017, pp. 39-40, 148, 178-82; Senn 1957
Literature:
Bölli & Münzberg 2023 [reprint of Harnoncourt 2017, pp. 179-82]; Harnoncourt 2023 (P20); Harnoncourt 2017, pp. 39-40, 148, 178-82; Hopfner & Seipel 2003, p. 193 (VII.9); Senn 1957
Photographs:
Harnoncourt 2023 (front 3/4, F+B body only, head FB+S [color]; front 3/4 with cello neck); Hopfner & Seipel 2003, p. 193 (front); Senn 1957, between pp. 392-93 (FB+S)
Recordings:
Harnoncourt 1964 (Maximilian; played by H. Höbarth))
Auctions:
Comments:
Senn 1957: Only body is original; one-piece table and (arched) back. Soundholes are backwards Cs and very close (hence originally only 5 strings?). Modified to a cello in mid-18th C.: already listed as such in a 1783 inventory, which adds “in Cremona” after maker’s name. New neck, still as a cello, for Prof. M. Jeller, c. 1916. Dimensions: 80, 36/-/44, 12, -. Repair label: “Joan. Georg Psenner, Lauten-, / Geigen- und Saitenmacher in Inns- / bruck. An. 1791. Reparavit” [printed except 91, Reparavit]. Hopfner & Seipel: 5-piece purfling, uniquely also on ribs. No further information on builder. Dimensions 80.6, 35.7/26.2/44.4, 11.0,-. Harnoncourt 2017: neither a cello nor a gamba, but a predecessor of both, deriving from medieval fiddles; does not blend well with either viols or violins, but does with voices and brass. Renecked in 17th C. as a cello, and thus when found, but original must have had at least 5 strings; new neck by Josef Krenn, based on “Tenorfiedel” c. 1550, acquired in 1961 from U. Rück.