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Music: Pavan for five violas da gamba by Alfonso Ferrabosco

The Vazquez Collection of Historical String Instruments  of the 16th to the 18th Century

Some of the marvels you will see during a stroll through our exhibition

The collection now contains over 170 instruments (viola da gamba, viola d'amore, violin, viola, violoncello, violone, baryton) and historical bows dating mostly from 1560 to 1780, all restored to their original playing conditions and placed at the disposal of members of the Orpheon Orchestra, Orpheon Consort, students of the University for Music and the Performing Arts Vienna and professional musicians all over Europe for concerts, recordings and study purposes. It is the living acoustical heritage - the sounds that these instruments produce for those living today - that interests us, and not their mere decorative flair as objets trouvés from aristocratic residences from our distant past. We wish to hear what these instruments have to say... 
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Caspar Netscher or Rogier de la Haye (17th C. Dutch)

Viola da gamba from a painting by Caspar Netscher or Rogier de la Haye

Violone by Jan Udalricus Eberle, Praha, 1750

Violin by Antonio Pollusca, Rome, 1741

Violin by Gian Antonio Marchi, Bologna, ca. 1760

Violin in Renaissance form by Anton Gedler, ca. 1790

Violin by Matthias Albanus, Bozen, ca. 1680

Viola by Nikolas Leidolff, Vienna, ca. 1700

Tenor viola da gamba by Gasparo da Salò

Viola da gamba pardessus, Flemish, ca. 1700

viola da gamba by William Turner

viola da gamba by William Turner viola da gamba by William Turner

Scroll of a treble viola da gamba by Salomon, Paris.

viola da gamba, treble, münich, ca. 1700

Leonhard Maussiell, Nürnberg, 1720

Viola da gamba by Gio. Balla Bugger, Mantova, 1630

Viola da gamba by John Rose

Viola da gamba, treble, ca. 1730

Viola da gamba by Joachim Tielke, Hamburg,

Viola da gamba by Joachim Tielke, Hamburg

Viola da gamba, bass by Jakiob Stainier, 1671

Viola da gamba by Edward Lewis,London, 1687

Viola da gamba by Nikolas Leidolff, 1695

Viola da gamba by Nicholas Leidolff, Vienna, 1695

Viola da gamba by Gianpaolo Grancino, Mailand, 1

Viola da gamba by Claude Boivin, Paris, ca. 1740

Viola d’amore by Salomon, Paris, ca. 1740

Viola d’amore by Johann Schorn, Salzburg, ca. 1700

Joseph Hentschel, Brno, 1750

Viola by Nikolas Leidolff, ca. 1700

Viola da gamba by Willaim Turner, London,

Scroll from a French violoncello

Lion’s head from an Italian Viola da gamba

Head from a pardessus viola da gamba

Viola by William Smith, Scheffield

Violoncello by Simone Cimapane, Rome, 1692

Violoncello, Montagnana-School, Venice, ca. 1700

Viola d’amore by Tho. Andreas Hulintzky, Prague, 1774

Viola d’amore by Johann Schorn, Salzburg, ca. 1700

Viola da gamba by Michael Albanus, Graz, 1706

Viola da gamba by Claude Boivin, Paris, ca. 1740

Viola da gamba by Leonhart Maussiell, Nürnberg, 1720

Scroll of treble viola da gamba, Salomon, Paris, ca. 1740

Scroll of a treble viola da gamba by Salomon, Paris.

Scroll from a French violoncello, ca. 1780

Viola di Pardone (Baryton)

Scroll of a treble viola da gamba by Salomon, Paris.

Violoncello by Simone Cimapane, Roma, 1692

Lion’s head from a viola da gamba, north Italy

Violin by Carlo Gius. Testore, Milano, ca. 1700

Viola di Pardone (Baryton)

Violoncello, North Italy, ca. 1760

Five-string violin by Joachim Tielke, Hamburg, ca. 1700

Five-string violin by Joachim Tielke

Violin by Nicoloò Amati, Cremona, 1669

Violin from the Alemanisch School

Bonifazio Veronese

Violoncello, North Italy, 1760

Italian spinet

Viola da gamba by Ventura Linarolo, Venice, 1585

Viola da gamba by Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Brescia, ca. 1600

Viola da gamba by Jakob Stainer, Absam, 1671

Viola da gamba by William Turner, London, ca. 1650

Matthias Joanes Koldiz, Munich, 18th. C.

Pardessus de viole, Louis Guersan, Paris, ca. 1750

Violin by Carlo Giuseppe Testore, Milano, 17th C.

Violin by Johann Schorn, Salzburg, 1707

Contrabasso di Viola da gamba, Veneto, 17th. C.