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The Kreisler Bergonzi is an antique violin made by the Italian luthier Carlo Bergonzi (1683–1747) from Cremona in 1740.[1]
The violin is named after violinist Fritz Kreisler. After being forced to donate his Guarnerius to the Library of Congress to settle a tax debt with the United States Internal Revenue Service, Kreisler used the Bergonzi violin as his primary performance instrument for more than ten years near the end of his career. Several recordings were made by Kreisler with the Bergonzi which can be seen on the album covers on which he is holding it.[2]
Fritz Kreisler passed the instrument onto Cuban violinist Angel Reyes who in turn made it available to Itzhak Perlman. Perlman recorded the Khachaturian Concerto on the Kreisler Bergonzi and on the cover of the album he is pictured holding it. After Perlman, the violin was played by Ruben Gonzales, who was concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony. In 1995 the instrument was purchased by the noted violin collector David Fulton who retained it until 2006 when the violin was purchased by the Dextra Musica foundation.
Of all of the extant Cremonese instruments, the Kreisler Bergonzi is one of the best preserved with its original neck and most of its original varnish. There has been very little repair work required on it. It is one of the best sounding of all Bergonzi violins.
Currently, the Kreisler Bergonzi is owned by Dextra Musica and on loan to Norwegian violinist Guro Kleven Hagen.
The KreislerBergonzi is an antique violin made by the Italian luthier Carlo Bergonzi (1683–1747) from Cremona in 1740. The violin is named after violinist...
work. Kreisler owned several antique violins made by luthiers Antonio Stradivari, Pietro Guarneri, Giuseppe Guarneri, and Carlo Bergonzi, most of which...
Reyes also obtained a violin from Carlo Bergonzi, known as the "KreislerBergonzi", previously owned by Fritz Kreisler and at a later time by Itzhak Perlman...
is performing on a violin made by C. Bergonzi (Cremona, Italy) made about 1735–40, also known as Kreisler-Bergonzi on loan from Dextra Musica. 2010: Winner...
also plays the Guarneri del Gesù 1743 'Sauret' and the Carlo Bergonzi 1740 'ex-Kreisler'. Perlman lives in New York City with his wife, Toby, also a classically...
Verdi): Alfredo Simonetto conducting the RAI Milano Orchestra, with Carlo Bergonzi and Rolando Panerai. (1951) La bohème (Giacomo Puccini): Alberto Erede...
Stradivarius (1728), the "ex-Stern" Bergonzi (1733), the "Panette" Guarneri del Gesù (1737), a Michele Angelo Bergonzi (1739–1757), the "Arma Senkrah" Guadagnini...
Fischer-Dieskau (1969), and a set of Madama Butterfly with Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi and Rome Opera forces that has remained in the catalogues since its first...
England Alban Berg 1935 Composer Friedhof Hietzing, Vienna, Austria Carlo Bergonzi 2014 Opera singer Cimitero di Vidalenzo, Parma, Italy Hector Berlioz 1869...
Joan Sutherland, Régine Crespin, Plácido Domingo, Gottlob Frick, Carlo Bergonzi, Kiri Te Kanawa, Ben Heppner and José van Dam. In concerto recordings,...
added an Ernani (1962) with Price and Carlo Bergonzi. In 2017, a broadcast Aida (1967), with Bergonzi and Bumbry, was released separately and in a boxed...
in maschera Birgit Nilsson, Sylvia Stahlman, Giulietta Simionato, Carlo Bergonzi, Cornell MacNeil, Fernando Corena Santa Cecilia Academy Chorus Santa Cecilia...
1644–1737 in Cremona The Rugeri family, active 1650–1740 in Cremona Carlo Bergonzi (luthier) (1683-1747) in Cremona The school of Venice, with the presence...
Francesco Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur—Joan Sutherland (Adriana Lecouvreur), Carlo Bergonzi (Maurizio), Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [it] (Il Principe di Bouillon),...
recording at the Royal Opera House, London, 1964 Puccini: Tosca (Callas, Bergonzi; Prêtre, 1964) EMI Puccini: Le Villi (Scotto, Domingo, Nucci; Maazel, 1979)...
Scotto, Renata Tebaldi, Anna Moffo, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Carlo Bergonzi, Alfredo Kraus, Giorgio Tozzi, Gabriel Bacquier, Nicolai Gedda, Giuseppe...
was impressive, as were their instruments (made by Stradivari, Guarneri, Bergonzi, Amati, etc.). An honor such as that concert "had been accorded to no other...
Pierre Monteux, Fritz Reiner, and George Szell; and singers such as Carlo Bergonzi, Jussi Björling, Lisa Della Casa, Leontyne Price, and Renata Tebaldi. By...
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