Feuermann's Cello
In 1929, Feuermann purchased a cello made by David Tecchler in Rome in 1741. From 1932, Feuermann also owned an instrument made by another Venetian master luthier Domenico Montagnana in 1735. This instrument, which continues to bear his name, is today in the hands of a Swiss cellist and collector. It was larger and wider than the Tecchler.
Feuermann later owned the De Munck Stradivarius cello built in 1730. It is currently on extended loan from the Nippon Foundation to the cellist Steven Isserlis.
Feuermann is also said to have owned and played a Gofriller cello, later owned by American cellist Joseph Schuster; from Schuster, it passed to Jascha Silberstein.
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