Moglie Violin
date: label: date made
content: 1923
name: label: maker
content: Moglie, Albert
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This violin was made by Albert Moglie in Washington, DC in 1923. It is patterned after instruments made by Venetian luthier, Sanctus Serephin (1699-1776).</p>
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content: <p>Albert Moglie (b. Dec. 16, 1890, Rome; d. June 9, 1988, Washington DC) operated a violin shop in Washington DC for 65 years from 1922 until 1987. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to Antonio Sgarbi; he then worked under Luigi Enbergher, Giuseppe Rossi and Rodolfo Fredi, all of Rome. He later was a student of Hippolyte Sylvestre in Paris and Leandro Bisiach in Milan.</p>
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content: <p>Albert Moglie came to America at the age of 24 to work for the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, first in Cincinnati and then New York City in 1916. By 1917 he had established his own shop in New York at 1431 Broadway. He moved to Washington DC in 1922.</p>
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content: <p>Moglie enjoyed a fine reputation in Washington as a violin restorer, and is especially remembered as the caretaker of the Gertrude Clark Whittall Stradivari quartet of instruments at the Library of Congress, an association that began in the 1930s and lasted more than 50 years.</p>
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content: <p>The Smithsonian, National Museum of American History, Archives Center houses additional materials on the life and career of Albert F. Moglie:<p>
label: Description
content: <p>Albert F. Moglie Violinist and Violin-Making Collection</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Violins
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lorette M. (Mrs. Albert) Moglie
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0749.01
label: accession number
content: 1988.0749
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0749.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: violin
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 3/4 in x 8 1/4 in x 4 1/8 in; 60.325 cm x 20.955 cm x 10.4775 cm