Gijón, Spain, 14 July - 21 August, 2005
Head of a bass viola da gamba by
Joachim Tielke, Hamburg, 1683
1. The Exhibition
Halls of the Family of the Viola da gamba
Halls of the Family of the Viola da braccio:
violins, violas, violoncellos, double basses
Italian violas da gamba by Gianpaolo Maggini, Brescia, ca. 1600
and Gianbattista Grancino, Milano, 1697
Harpsichord after Giovanni Maria Giusti
Painting after Bonifacio Veronese
Viola da gamba by Gianpaolo Maggini, Brescia, ca. 1600
Renaissance violas da gamba: bass by Ventura Linarolo, Venice, 1585
Renaissance viola da gamba, anonymous, Veneto, ca. 1600
Painting by Bonifazio Veronese
A viola da gamba consort of English instruments of the 17th Century
Treble viola da gamba by Henry Jaye, London, ca. 1620
Two treble violas da gamba by William Turner, London, 1647 & 1656
Bass viola da gamba by William Turner, London, ca. 1650
Bass viola da gamba by Edward Lewis, London, 1687
A future viola da gamba player, selecting his first instrument!
Twins!
Dendrochronology has proved that these two treble violas da gamba were made from the same tree!
Bass viola da gamba by Claude Boivin, Paris, ca. 1740
Two pardessus de viole, the smallest members of the
viola da gamba family
Head from a pardessus and a bass viol
Head of the bass viola da gamba by Nikolas Leidolff, Vienna, 1695
The trio sonata of the Baroque:
two violins, violoncello, harpsichord
School of Instrument-making of the Habsburg Empire:
Jacob Stainer and the Dynasties: Thir, Leidolff, Stadlmann, Eberle
String Quartet from the Time of Mozart and Haydn:
Violoncello by Nikolas Leidolff, Vienna, 1690
Viola by Joseph Antonius Laske, Prague, ca. 1787
Violins by Johann Christoph Leidolff and Johann Joseph Stadlmann
The viole d'amore
Salomon, Leidolff, Fichtl, Hulinsky
Large violoncello by Anton Posch, Vienna, ca. 1700
Viola by William Smith, Sheffield, ca. 1780
Baryton after Simon Schodler (1782) built by
Ferdinand Wilhelm Jaura, Munich, 1934
First guided visit of the exhibition
2. The Inaugural Concert
Orpheon Consort: inaugural concert
Christine Esser - soprano
Jose Vazquez, Lucia Krommer, Margit Meckel, Christa Opriessnig,
Eva Fürtinger, Christian Drechsel - viola da gamba
Vit Bebar - harpsichord and organ
2. The Early Music Course
With the instruments of the collection!
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