Instruments by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu as listed by Hill

Click here for list of instruments by Guarneri del Gesu exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum, 1994
The Violin Makers of the Guarneri family, Their Life and Work
The following were noted as representative examples instruments by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu as listed by Alfred, Arthur and W. Henry Hill in 1932.

Andrea Guarneri

[synopsis] [instr.list]

Pietro Guarneri
of Mantua
[synopsis] [instr. list]

Introduction

Giuseppe Guarneri
filius Andrea
[synopsis] [instr. list]

Pietro Guarneri
of Venice
[synopsis] [instr. list]

Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu

Violins

The order has been altered from the original to accomodate the combination of listings made in different contexts and on different pages. Entries in bold denote the Hill's "final choice" of examples that they felt, in 1932, were particularly superior instruments. Certain instruments listed are discussed in Chapter V ("...The Tonal Aspect") but page references have been omitted here.

Date

Instrument title

Page references

1726

Mrs. Stretton, ex Chas. Finch

p.78

Period 1726-30

Mr. W.W. Cobbett, ex Downs

p.78

1729

Mr. T.D. Brown, ex Heath

p.78

Period 1729-30

Miss Chapman, ex Bennett

p.78

1730

Mr. A. Payne, ex Ferdinand David

p.78

1730

Frl. Rode, ex von Heyder

p.78

1732

Mr. T. Spiering, ex Pixis

p.78

1730

Mrs. Frances G. Lee, ex Baron Vitta

pp.84/101

1731

Mr. Felix Kahn, ex Cte de Chaponay

p.84

1732

M. Blanco, ex Armigaud

pp.84/101

1732

M. Plotenyi, ex Remenyi

p.84

1732

Mr. Ferencz Hegedus, ex Lord Dunmore ( See note*1)

pp.84/101

1732

Mr. Sascha Colbertson, ex Carolina Ferni

pp.84/101

1732

M. Zlatko Balakovic, ex Becker

pp.84/101

1732

Baron Erlanger, ex Northomb

p.101

1733

M. Jaroslav Siskovsky, ex Deichmann

pp.84/101

1733

M. Fritz Kreisler, ex Junot, ex Mountford

pp.84/101

1733

M. Duchamp, ex Alday

pp.84/101

1734

M.H. Grohmann, ex Pugnani

p.84

1734

Miss May Harrison, ex Lord Amherst of Hackney

pp.84/101

1734

M. Harry Wahl, ex Rode

p.84

1734

Mr. Richard Bennett, 'Violon du Diable', ex St.Leon

p.84/101

1734

Mr. R.A. Bower, ex Soames

p.101

1734

Mrs. Silcock, ex Capt. Frewin

p.101

1734

M. Bronislaw Huberman, ex Alfred Gibson

pp.84/101

1735

Mr. Eric. H. Rose, 'The King', ex Goding

pp.84/101

1735

Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, ex d'Egville

pp.85/101

1735

Mr. John T. Roberts, ex Plowden, ex Arbos

pp.85/101-2

1735

Miss Kathleen Parlow, ex Dr. Luc

pp.85/101

1735

M. Jan Kubelik, ex Petherick, ex Townley

pp.85/101

1735

Mr. Rudolph Wurlitzer, Sennhauser

pp.85/101

1735

M. Antonio Antoncich, ex Ward

p.101

1735

Hon. Mary Portman, ex Murray

p.101

1735

M. Jan Kubelik, ex Townley

p.101

1735

A.C. Marshall, ex Muntz

p.101

1735

M. Chardon ... (a child's violin) ( See note*2 )

p.85

1736

Miss Amy Neill, Signora Teja Ferni

pp.88/101

1736

Mr. J.F. Otwell, ex Soil

pp.88/101

1737

Mr. Horace O. Havemayer, ex Hawley

pp.88/102

1737

Mr. Alfred San Malo, ex Lipinski

pp.88/102

1737

Mr. Ralph H. Norton, ex Wanamaker, ex Marquise de Belatre

pp.88/102

1738

Mr. Rudolph Wurlitzer, ex Adam

pp.88/102

1738

Mr. George Kemp, ex Posner

pp.88/102

1738-9

Lyon and Healy, ex Consolo, ex Partello ( See note*3 )

pp.88/102

1739

Mr. Rudolph Wurlitzer, ex Kortschak ( See note*4 )

pp.88/102

1740

M. Otto Senn, ex Lutti

p.88

1740

M. Eugene Ysaye, ex Cte. Baldeschi, ex Adam ( See note*5 )

pp.(88)/102

1740

M. Adolf Rebner, ex Bonjour

p.88

Period 1740

Mr. Ralph H. Norton, ex Sauret

p.102

Period 1740

M. Camille Barrere, ex Rovelli

p.102

Period 1740

Mme Alma Moodie, ex Kreisler

pp.88/102

1741

Mr. Robert A. Bower, ex Vieuxtemps, ex Sons

pp.88/102

1741

M. Paul Kochanski, ex Davis, ex Enthoven

p.88

1741

M. Adolfo Betti., ex Sainton

p.88	Top \| Back

1741

Miss Doubleday, ex Duvette

p.88

1741

Mr. Henry Ford, ex Doyen

pp.88/96/102

1741

Mme. Soldat, ex Bazzini

pp.91/102

1742

Mr. Samuel Dushkin, ex Plowden, ex Heath

pp.91/102

1742

Museum of the Paris Conservatoire, ex Alard

pp.91/102

1742

Municipal Palace of Genoa, ex Paganini ( See note*6 )

pp.91-3/102-3

1742

Mr. Richard Bennett, ex Lord Wilton

pp.91/102-3

Period 1742

M. Jascha Heifetz, ex Ferdinand David

pp.91/102

1743

Dr. Felix Landau, ex Carrodus

pp.91/102

1743

Mr. John S. Phipps, ex Leduc

pp.91/95/102-3

1744

M. Hoffmann, ex Earl of Harrington

p.95

1744

Mr. Eric H. Rose, ex Hennell

pp.96/102

1744

Mrs. Lyon, ex Ole Bull

pp.95/102

1740-44

Lord Coke, ex Gand

p.95

1740-44

M. Gregorowitch, ex Wolkoff

p.95

1740-44

Miss Kneisel, ex Heath

p.95

NOTES

Top | Back

(*1)

Mr. Ferencz Hegedus, ex Lord Dunmore is entered again as dated 1734 - p.101

(*2)

Full narrative to this entry: "M. Chardon of Paris possesses a charming quarter size example (a child's violin)".

(*3)

Lyon and Healy, ex Consolo, ex Partello is entered as Mr. Cliff Durant, ex Consolo, ex Partello, dated as 'period 1739' on p.102

(*4)

The 1739 'Mr. Rudolph Wurlitzer, ex Kortschak' as noted on page 82 is referred to as the 'Mr. Rudolph Wurlitzer, ex Hammig' of the same date on page 102 (per Metropolitan Museum exhibition catalogue 1994)

(*5)

Most certainly the same instrument indicated as 'M. Eugene Ysaye, ex Adam, ex Willmotte' dated 1740, on p. 88. (Note: Willmotte is not mentioned in either the Metropolitan Museum exhibition catalogue 1994, or in 'The Hottinger Collection' catalogue both of which designate the instrument "Ysaye" and date it 1740).

(*6)

This instrument is commonly referred to as the 'Cannon'.