violin
Giuseppe Desiato
built in Naples in ± 1900
A violin built by Giuseppe Desiato at the Postiglione workshop in Naples, ca. 1900.
History of this instrument
In 2003, the Musical Instrument Fund purchased this violin from a Dutch dealer. Its first player was Lev Friendman, who at the time was the concertmaster of the second violins in the Radio Chamber Orchestra. Since 2007, the violin has been loaned successively to Eleonoor Tchernoff, Shin Shihan, and Tim Brackman. In 2019, Alice van Binsbergen became the lucky player.
About the builder Giuseppe Desiato
Naples has been an important center for musical instruments ever since the first violin maker from the Gagliano family. Poverty was a recurring consequence of epidemics or economic hardship, which meant that local musicians often had...
