DHV:
510
Tourin ID:
LEIPB 26
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1696 C
Label Text:
Anno 1733 Carlo Bergonzi / fece in Cremona [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
[ex-Universität Leipzig]
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
815
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Wilhelm Heyer, Cologne, 1905-1926; Paul de Wit, Leipzig, 1893-1905; Oswald Schmitz, Cologne
Measurements:
Body Length:
67
String Length:
69.6
Rib Depth:
13
Upper Width:
31
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
39
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 318-20; Kinsky 1912, 2:462-5
Literature:
Fontana 2022, pp. 25-26; Hellwig 2011, pp. 318-20; Hellwig 1980, pp. 250-51; Schultz 1929, p. 64; Kinsky 1912, 2:462-5
Photographs:
Fontana 2022, p. 25 (front 7/8, being played by de Wit); Hellwig 2011, pp. 319 (F+B 7/8); Lütgendorff 1922, vol. 1, pl. 29b (front 7/8); Kinsky 1912, 2:456 (head 3/4), 467 (F+B, both 7/8)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 092; Hellwig 1980, no. 082. Lost since World War II (probably stolen from nearby Schloß Dölkau); all info from Kinsky 1912. Converted to a cello; reconverted in 1894 by Gustav Siefert, Leipzig. Table with double purfling, 2-piece back (flat with fold); upper part of body not original, dating from cello conversion. Pegbox original, with open-carved ivory plate on back; new neck, fingerboard, and tailpiece, modelled on museum’s no. 813. Hellwig 2011 adds: upper bouts drastically lengthened (by Seifert in 1894); fingerboard inlaid with tortoiseshell on ivory, reverse-color counterpart to TieWV 89, thus original, but tailpiece not. Fontana 2022: cello conversion probably done in Italy in 2nd half of 19th century.