Exhibitions of the Orpheon Foundation
The Vazquez Collection of Historical String Instruments
Violins, Violas da gamba, Viola d'amore, Violoncellos, Double Basses
from 1500 to 1789

The Orpheon exhibitions: a photographic panorama


The Castle of Kremsegg, Upper Austria
Beginning June 16, 2007

The Orpheon exhibitions: a photographic panorama

This exhibition is generously supported in part by a grant of the European Union,
Culture-2000, Mozart-Call: Project description

Schloss Kremsegg


View of the Palace of Kremsegg from the town (1670)


Schloss Kremsegg

View of the Palace of Kremsegg (2007)


Schloss Kremsegg

The Renaissance Court

The Orpheon Exhibition

viola da gamba Alletsee & anon. Munich

Treble violas da gamba by Alletsee and anonymous, Munich,


viola da gamba in italy, 16th & 17th C.

Consort of Italian violas da gamba of the 16th and 17th Centuries


viola da gamba in italy, 16th & 17th C.
Bass viola da gamba, Italy, 16th C.


viola da gamba in italy, 16th & 17th C.

Violone in D, Veneto, 17th C.
This instrument is also called "Contrabasso di Viola da gamba"

viola da gamba in England, 17th C.

A Chest of Viols
Consort of violas da gamba, England, 17th Century
Treble viols by William Turner and Henry Jaye
Bass viol by Edward Lewis, London, 1687


viola da gamba pardessus, Flemish, ca. 1710

Pardessus de viole (viola da gamba), Flemish, ca. 1700
and scroll of a treble viola da gamba by the School of Salomon, Paris, ca. 1740


viola da gamba, School of Salomon

Treble viola da gamba, School of Salomon, Paris, ca. 1740


viola da gamba Leidolff, Seeloss

Bass viola da gamba by Nikolaus Leidolff, Vienna, 1695
Bass viola da gamba by Johann Seeloss, Linz, 1691


sarangi

Sarangi from India, date uncertain


viola da gamba by Claudie Boivin

Viola da gamba by Claudie Boivin, Paris, ca. 1740


String quartett Mozart Haydn

Viennese String Quartett of the Times of Mozart and Haydn
Violins by Johann Joseph Stadlmann and Anton Leeb,
viola by Johann Joseph Stadlmann
Violoncello by Johann Christoph Leidolff


violin, viola Johann Joseph Stadlmann

Violin and viola by Johann Joseph Stadlmann, Vienna, ca. 1760


violin, viola alemanisch violins Italian
Violin Alemannisch School
Viola, Tyrol, 17th C.
Italian violins from Veneto, Milano, Roma


violoncello italian, harpsichord

Violoncello, North Italy, ca. 1760
Double-manual harpsichord after a French original


violin, viola, Mathias Thir

Violin and viola by Mathias Thir, Vienna, ca. 1780


violins Kloz, Horil, Koldiz

Violins by Horil, Aeguidius Kloz and Jakob Koldiz


violin Gedler

Violin by Anton Gedler, viola by Hulinsky


baryton, viola

Baryton by Hoyer, Viola by Josephus Antonius Laske, Prague, 1787


Presentation by the Instrument Making School in Hallstatt
under the direction of Simone Zopf

Construction of a viola da gamba


Instrumentenbauschule Hallstatt


Instrumentenbauschule Hallstatt


The Operation of the Bladder Stone
(This presentation is coming to Kremsegg from Vienna)


Original apparatus and surgical utensils kindly lent us by the
Museum of Medicine and the Pathological Institute of Vienna


Operation table, copy after an original of the 17th Century by Scott Wallace
We are looking for a volunteer to perform a historical operation of the bladder stone
using original instruments of the period...



Collection of Historical Keyboard Instruments
of the Castle of Kremsegg



The Castle of Kremsegg houses a major collection of historical pianos










Fortepiano by Clementi, London, 1812


updated 20.11.2007