John Dilworth
SAINPRE (SAINT-PRE), Jacques 17th century Berlin Germany. Baryton exhibited in South Kensington 1872, labelled: Jacques Sainpre A. Berlin [Vannes]
Cecie Stainer
A maker in Berlin in the 17th century. A viola di bordone, or baryton, was exhibited in the South Kensington Museum, 1872.
George Hart
A Baryton Viol of this maker is among the musical instruments at the Kensington Museum. It is said to have belonged to Johann Quantz, the famous fluteplayer.* The Baryton was a favourite instrument with Haydn. He composed several pieces for the instrument, and was fond of playing it. The Baryton, or Viola di Bordone, is of the character of the Viole d’Amour, being strung with sympathetic metal strings. It is, however, a larger and more complicated instrument. [* The flute-playing of Johann Joachim Quantz in 1728 gave so much pleasure to the Crown Prince of Prussia, afterwards Frederick the Great, that he decided to take lessons from Quantz, who was then in the service of Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Quantz was stationed alternately in Dresden and Warsaw. He became a member of the orchestra of Augustus in 1718, when Jean Baptiste Volumierwas its director, of whom mention has been made (page 196) relative to his having been sent to Cremona in 1715 to await the completion of twelve Violins ordered of Stradivari.]
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff
In Berlin war nichts über ihn zu ermitteln; sein Name wurde nur dadurch bekannt, dass eine Viola di Bordone von ihm, die aus dem Besitze von Quantz stammen soll, im South Kens. Mus. 1872 ausgestellt war. (Richtig geschrieben dürfte der Name Saintpré oder Saint-Preux gelautet haben.)
