violin
Johannes Theodorus Cuypers
built in The Hague in 1793
A violin built by Johannes Theodorus Cuypers in The Hague, 1793.
History of this instrument
This violin was loaned to the Musical Instrument Fund by a private individual in 1994. Theo Olof was the first to evaluate the violin and felt at the time that it still needed to “loosen up” a bit in the lower register. The violin has been loaned successively to Anne McMichael, Joachim Kruithof, Leonie Bot, Robert Orvalho, and Judith de Haas. Tessel Hersbach has been playing the violin since 2011.
About the builder Johannes Theodorus Cuypers
The Netherlands experienced two periods of prosperity in violin making. The first was in Amsterdam from 1650 to 1728; the second took place largely in The Hague, from 1760 to 1840. This peak was primarily due to the Cuypers family, led...
