Palma de Mallorca, Spain
27 February - 5 April, 2006

Halls of the Casa de la Cultura, Palma de Mallorca


Press conference at the inauguration, 27th February

French violas da gamba (left), five-string violin by Joachim Tielke (right)
Painting by Caspar Netscher

Violone (Contrabasso di viola da gamba), Venetian, 17th C., harpsichord after G-B. Giusti

The World of the Viola da gamba



Treble viola da gamba of the Brescian School, ca. 1600 (left)
Bass viola da gamba by Ventura Linarolo, Venice, 1585 (right)
Archlute copy after Railich
Music: Capricci by Vincentino Ruffo, printed 1585
Painting by Bonifacio Veronese, Venice, ca. 1550

The Viola da gamba in England
Bass viola da gamba by Edward Lewis, London, 1697 and William Turner, London, ca. 1650 and
Edward Lewis, London, 1697, treble violas da gamba by William Turner (standing) and Henry Jaye
Lyra-viol, copy after John Rose

Bass violas da gamba by Joachim Tielke, Mchael Albanus, Nikolas leidolff, Jakob Stainer
Treble viols, anonymous, ca. 1730
Violas d'amore by Salomon, Leidolff, Hulinsky

Baryton after Simon Schodler
The World of the Viola da braccio (violin)

The violin in Italy:
Nicolo Amati, Carlo Testore and others


String Quartet from the Time of Mozart and Haydn:
Viola by Johann Christoph Leidolff, Vienna, 1719 (left, in case)
Violins by Johann Christoph Leidolff and Johann Joseph Stadlmann
Viola by Johann Joseph Stadlmann
Violoncello by Michael Ingaz Stadlmann

Violin and viola by Johann Christoph Leidolff (above)
viola by Joseph Antonius Laske (below)

Violin and viola by Johann Georg Thir‚

Violone, five strings, by Johann Georg Thir, Vienna, 1750
Violoncello, Milano, ca. 1780

The historical bow collection

Violone by Jan Udalricus Eberle


Harpsichord after Jan Ruckers, Antwerp, 1628
Violoncello, Montagnana School, ca. 1700
Visits of the School Classes of Mallorca




