Mathias Griesser

Fussen, 1698–1784

Viola da braccio cited in the Castello Sfozesco catalogue (Gallini, Milan, 1963) with the impossible date of 169… Presumably a misreading or mistranscription. Mathias Greisser lauten / und Geigenmacherin / Insbrugg anno 169.. [Bletschacher] — John Dilworth

Worked Fussen

Biographies

The overview above is drawn from the following published accounts. Read them in the original:

John Dilworth+

GREISSER, Matthias Born 1698 Faulenbach, Füssen, Germany, died 1784 Innsbruck Austria. Viola da braccio cited in the Castello Sfozesco catalogue (Gallini, Milan, 1963) with the impossible date of 169… Presumably a misreading or mistranscription. Mathias Greisser lauten / und Geigenmacherin / Insbrugg anno 169.. [Bletschacher]

Cecie Stainer+

A maker in Innsbruck in 1727. A viola d’amore, with seven strings for bowing and twelve harmonic strings, of which the nineteen pegs are all in the head, which is very long, is in the Collection of the Liceo filarmonico at Bologna.

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+

Ein geschickter Meister, von dem das Instrumenten-Museum des Liceo filarmonico
in Bologna eine interessante Viola d’amore besitzt. Das kgl. Stift in Hall besass von ihm eine Violine, welche in dem bei Aufhebung des Stifts (1783) angelegten Inventar (Cod. 31 des Statthaltereiarchivs in Innsbruck) auf 54 Kronen bewerthet wurde (Ferd. Zeitschr. 1885. S. 275).

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