Albert Lang

photo: Waldemar Kielichowski © Institute of Music and Dance, Warsaw

Albert Lang

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 guitars with a bow

Violin maker: Albert Lang

Date: 1957

Town: Luby u Chebu

Country: Czechoslovakia

Owner: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s Collection of Violins

Inventory number: KIL-19, identification no. MKiS XV-C-19

Provenance: made for the 1957 International H. Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań; bought ca. 1962

Description: Guarneri del Gesu’s model; two-piece spruce belly, two-piece flame maple back; varnish in dark orange shades; for orchestra and solo performance; maintained by E. Gosiewski (1967)

Inscriptions: handwritten label reading: Albert Lang Mistr Houslař / Luby u- Chebu Č. S. R.

Measurements: body length 357 mm, upper bout 168 mm, middle bout 112 mm, lower bout 208 mm

Materials: spruce, sycamore

Prizes: Fourth Prize at the 1957 International H. Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań (equal with Eugeniusz Gosiewski, KIL-20 and Franz J. Klier, KIL-18)

Catalog card: based on the Union of Polish Artist Violin Makers’ documentation



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