Giovanni Dollenz

Instrument: violin

Classification: 3 Chordophones / 32 Composite chordophones / 321 Lutes / 321.3 Handle lutes / 321.32 Necked lutes / 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars / 321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitarswith a bow

Violin maker: Giovanni Dollenz

Date: 1849

Town: Trieste

Country: Italy

Owner: in private possession

Description: Italian school; two-piece spruce belly, sycamore back

Inscriptions: printed label in a frame, reading: Giovanni Dollenz / Fecit in Trieste Anno 1(849); another partly damaged label reading:...reparirt von / Moritz Gläsel / genannt Wiener. / Instrumentenmacher / Markneukirchen / in...[?]

Measurements: body length 358 mm, upper bout 163 mm, middle bout 113 mm, lower bout 198 mm, total length 596 mm

Materials: spruce, sycamore

Violinists: Barbara Górzyńska (Third Prize at the 1972 International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań; she played the violin only during the competition); Piotr Milewski (Second Prize at the 1977 International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań; he had played the instrument for seven years); Bartosz Bryła

Barbara Górzyńska, 1972; H. Wieniawski, Caprice No. 6 Prélude, Op. 10, Anthology © Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society of Poznań
Piotr Milewski, Symphony Orchestra of the State Philharmonic in Poznań, conductor: Wojciech Rajski, 1977; H. Wieniawski, Violin Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 14, I. Allegro moderato, Anthology © Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society of Poznań

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