DHV:
370
Tourin ID:
HARN 08
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
A
Vienna
Jacob
Precheisen
Date:
1670
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
A
Vienna
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Harnoncourt, Nikolaus [heirs]
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Stift Herzogenburg (Augustinian monastery in lower Austria) in 1849 (see Heider & Haeufler 1850, p. 173)
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Information
Source:
Harnoncourt 1965 (Bach St. John), nos. 31-32; Harnoncourt 1974 (Purcell); Harnoncourt 1965a (Florid-Song)
Literature:
Harnoncourt 2017, p. 18; Drescher 1990, p. 486; Heider & Haeufler 1850, p. 173
Photographs:
Harnoncourt 1965 (Bach St. John), no. 12; Harnoncourt 1965a (Florid-Song), no. 8; Harnoncourt n.d. (Kaiserhof), no. 17 (all front 7/8)
Recordings:
Harnoncourt 1974 (Purcell); Harnoncourt 1965 (Bach St. John), nos. 31-32; Harnoncourt 1965a (Florid-Song)
Auctions:
Comments:
Heider & Haeufler 1850: “Eine alte Gamba. Inwendig: “Jacob Precheisen, Hof Lauten und Geigenmacher in Wien 1670.” (At that time, Stift Herzogenburg also owned the Magnus Felden 1656 baryton.) Harnoncourt 2017: the first viol he bought, having found it in pieces in an attic of Herzogenburg monastery in 1951, almost completely unglued and very dirty; restored by Josef Krenn (Vienna), 1951-52. [Not in Harnoncourt 2023 sale]