1680 - Violin

Soundboard of spruce of fine grain. Back of two pieces of curly maple with large curl, glued to slight herringbone with apex at the bottom. Ribs of wood similar to that of the bottom. Scroll of plain maple. Paint red-orange on a golden ground.

  • 1680, Cremona
  • Francesco Ruger detto il Per Cremona 1680
  • 35.2 cm
  • 16.4 cm
  • 10.9 cm
  • 20 cm
  • Christopher Collins Lee since 2007
  • Luigi Tarisio; Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris); Darrieux (Grenoble) 1918; Caressa 1918
  • The instrument would be the one that belonged to Leopold Mozart, who told of his violin Francesco Ruggeri 1680 a "Study" for violin and with whom he has been portrayed in a dipindo preserved in the museum of Salzburg, in which some details of the table seem to correspond to this violin (the only one still existing with the original label dated 1680). On the death of Leopold, the instrument would have been inherited by his widow, Constanze Mozart reaching, owner of the violin in 1810, from which he would have bought from Luigi Tarisio.
  • Troostwijk 2004; Thöne 2008
creato:venerdì 25 ottobre 2013
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017