The auction record for a violin by this maker is $269,360, set in 2010. Clearly Rocca is a highly desirable maker. A second violin bearing the same label was made by John Lott, perhaps the best of the English makers. Lott is famous for copies so like a master maker’s work that they have passed the scrutiny of very well-regarded experts Stradivari's first known viola. So named because it was purchased by Rolf Habisreutinger on July 7, 1960, the 100th birthday of Gustav Mahler. The first of Stradivari's surviving violas. The instrument was exhibited at the South Kensington Museum in London in 1872, and was illustrated in George Hart's book "The Violin, its Famous Makers and meSkVJ.
  • oxdzn55soq.pages.dev/18
  • oxdzn55soq.pages.dev/30
  • oxdzn55soq.pages.dev/268
  • oxdzn55soq.pages.dev/321
  • oxdzn55soq.pages.dev/437
  • oxdzn55soq.pages.dev/390
  • oxdzn55soq.pages.dev/300
  • oxdzn55soq.pages.dev/181
  • famous italian violin maker from cremona