DHV:
582
Tourin ID:
LUZ 4
Size:
Tenor ?
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Augsburg
Hermann Joseph
Stoss
Date:
1718
Label Text:
Joseph Stoß laude, / und geig Macher zu / Augsburg ao 1718 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Willisau
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Musikinstrumentensammlung Willisau
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
5 (formerly 79)
Head:
Angel
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Richard-Wagner-Museum, Lucerne, 1943-2010; Henry Schuhmacher, Lucerne, and heirs (before 1903-1943); acquired from Kapuzinerkloser St. Maria in Wattwil (CH?)
Measurements:
Body Length:
46
String Length:
39.8
Rib Depth:
7.6
Upper Width:
21.5
Middle Width:
15
Bottom Width:
27.5
Information
Source:
Roosen 2001, pp. 49-51; PT visit 9/78
Literature:
MacCracken 2022, p. 86; Roosen 2001, pp. 49-51; Köpp 2000, p. 152; Vannes 1956, p. 17
Photographs:
Roosen 2001, pp. 52-53 (FB+S, head 3/4, rosette [color]); Paganelli 1970, p. 86 (front 7/8); Vannes 1956, pl. 79 (front 3/4); [by PT: front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Roosen 2001: Alt-Viola da gamba; 2-piece table with recurve and painted purfling; rosette (probably not original); 2-piece back with no border decoration. 3 crossbars (only the middle one original). Unusually short neck with rounded profile (but may be original); no frets; tailgut. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side; all pegs match the one replacement on Aman instrument in same collection. Varnish on table is a different color from back and ribs. Perhaps an arm-viol or viola d’amore without sympathetic strings. Repair label on top block: “J.K. Züst jun. St. Gallen / Geigenmacher und Reparateur / 26 Aug. 92...”; and in pencil on bass lower rib: “Repariert Hermann Seyffarth / Leipzig-Gohlis 1903.” Köpp 2000: viola d’amore (with blindfolded angel head); gives label text as “Josef Stoss Länder / Augsburg Anno 1718” but says he was only temporarily there, normally in Füssen. (TGM: Stoss became a citizen of Füssen in 1705.) Drescher 1990: not certain it’s by Stoss. Tourin: tenor; dimensions 46.8, 21.6/14.7/27.5, 8.2, 39.5; tailgut is original; arm viol?