Viola da Gamba Society of America

1740

Tenor

Mathias

Fichtl

# of Strings:

6

Place Made:

D, Augsburg

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

CH, Geneva

Sound Holes:

Flame

Collection:

Musée d’art et d’histoire

Head:

Female

Catalog Number:

IM 15

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Previous Owner:

Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969

Information Source:

PT visit 10/78

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Undated museum postcard (front [color])

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Tourin: “definitely da gamba”; neck possibly original. Museum postcard: tenor, Vienna, 1740. Rosette. Attribution needs further investigation: if 1740 date is correct, can’t be the Mathias Fichtl whose widow married G.F. Wenger of Augsburg in 1701 (but could be a namesake son or grandson; or else Martin Mathias Fichtl II of Vienna, c. 1683-1768).