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In Focus: An 1845 violin by Johann Georg Stauffer

2024-08-30T08:44:00

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Jakob Nachbargauer and Adrian Elschek examine a mid-century violin by the successful Austrian guitar maker

The name of Johann Georg Stauffer is inevitably connected to the Viennese guitar, the spirit of inventiveness in early 19th-century Vienna and the ‘Guitaromania’ of the Romantic period. Among his customers, friends and business partners were Franz Schubert, Anton Diabelli and the guitarist Mauro Giuliani. Although Stauffer’s career was shaped by his success as a guitar maker, like the most of his contemporaries he trained and started as a violin maker…

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