Tachov School
Antonin Pauli
Tachov, worked 1707–1730
Fine work on large model. Pale yellow varnish; sometimes thin and transparent, more often thick and opaque. Finely decorated viola d’amore in the Berlin Museum of Musical Instruments. Antoni Pauli Musicus / Instrumentalis in Tachau / Anno 17.. — John Dilworth
Biographies
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John Dilworth+
Antonín Worked circa. 1707-1730. Fine work on large model. Pale yellow varnish; sometimes thin and transparent, more often thick and opaque. Finely decorated viola d’amore in the Berlin Museum of Musical Instruments. Antoni Pauli Musicus / Instrumentalis in Tachau / Anno 17..
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Ein trefflicher Geigenmacher, der ein breites Modell bevorzugte und einen
dicken, gelblichen Lack anwendete. In der kgl. Sammlung in Berlin befindet
sich eine Viola d’ amore von ihm aus dem Jahre 1718 von ausgezeichneter
Arbeit, mit gemaserten Zargen und einem Löwenkopf am Wirbelkasten (No. 862).
Aus der Sammlung Snoeck besitzt Berlin ein gleiches Instrument mit flachem Boden und einem geschnitzten Köpfchen (No. 494).
Cecie Stainer+
Worked in Tachau in 1723. A viola d’amore of large pattern, with flat back, twelve strings, pale yellow varnish, and without any trace of repairs or alterations, had the label: ” Ant. Pauli Musicus instrumentalis in Tachau, 1723.”
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