The Washington times., 1920-08-22
FINE V|OL|NS GAVE
W0RLDCREAT MUSIC
Cremona Instruments Fostered
Development Of Symphony
To Highest Pitch.

"One OF the most interesting ihstfu-
ments extant. at least on account )f
its antiquity. is the Hleronimus Am
All. which once belonged to KING
Henry ~ of France. and which was
made In 1895. bearing that label IL
is one OF the oldest OF known mas
-terpieces in violin making ana Is also
one of the nrst OF recorded Violins'
being but within nifty years from the
time that violin making and violin
pIayine became world art.
The violin is now in the possession
Of I,yon and Healy. II is In an eN-
cellent state OF preservation. Beauti-
fully vanished and embellished with
coats OF arms. an inscription on u
states that IL was made especially
for the kings chapel
Famous violins are owned by va
rious collectors and also by dis
ltinguished virtuosi. Ofen amateur
collectors are not players OF the In
strument themselves, but have
subtle artistic taste. which has It's
fair in the admiration for grace or
design, beauty OF form or sensitive
tone.
MAUD POwELL's VIOLIN.
"There are, though. many famous
yiolinists who own magnificent instru-
ments and the late Maud Powell had
a Joseph Guarnerius violin known as
the Meyseder. Fritz kreislers strad
| IL a familiar instrument ana mahy
others might be named.
"When Lyon and Heaiy acquired
| the Royal De Forest Hawley coilec-
tion, we obtained one of. the hnest
. and most important collections OF o'd
Italian instruments in the world
/ A brochure prepared by Mr. Free
man on the Hawley collection con-
| tains an introduction written by Theo-
! dore Thomas. in which some very IN
| teresting poGnts regarding the oe-
velopment OF music and the credit
given especially to StradiVarl ana
| Tourte, the bow maker. A quotation
from the Thomas introduction follows.
He SAYS in part. 1T is safe to say
| that without the Cremona instruments
, Of the seventeenth century the world
would not have had the master works,
| quartets and symphonies OF Haydn
and Mozart. 1t was in particular
| Straivari who created tone which
! appealed to musicians, and Francis
| Tourte. born in l747, died 1885, who
| invented a bow which made the mod
ern orchestra with all its shading ana
| nuances-and a Beethoven-possiol
| WlthOut tnese ohN 49,
Tourte bow, invented over a century
later, the music of today would haN'
been developed on altogether differ
ent lines"
! The book mentioned above. Is a
rare and authentic compendium OF
J the Hawley collection OF violins, ac-
| auired on the death of Royal De For
est Hawley of Hartford, Conn, and Is
a limited publication with every VOL
ume Of the 1000 in the edition, num-
bered; felt highly complimented In
having No. SIG intrusted TO me.
| In the collection are many fne and
noted instruments. and the Karl
I Stradiyarius, dated 1872, is one OF the
J best.
The Bot" Stradivarius OF l123
bought by Mr.. Freeman from Wilhelm
Bott, came into the latter's possession
on the death OF Jean Bott, his brother,
the owner, who lived in New York
city. Its price is $4,000. Another
Stradivarius of an early period-l7l7
bought from a dentist in Bingham
ton, n. Y, about the same time, has
since been in the possession OF Leo
nora Jackson, the violinist, who con-
certified in this country extensively.
| "The Jansa Stradivarius," resumed
Mr.. Freeman, has a curious history
1t was originally bought by us and