David Tecchler

David Tecchler (1666–1748) was an Austrian luthier, best known for his cellos and double basses.

Tecchler was born in Salzburg, Austria, where he worked for a time. He also lived and worked in Venice and in Rome, Italy. Most of his career was in Rome.

His instruments are Germanic or Italian in their style of construction.

A 1706 Tecchler cello was acquired by the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank and is on loan to Canadian cellist Denis Brott. There is also a Tecchler cello owned by Anne Martindale Williams (the Principal cellist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra). "Her Tecchler cello was made in Rome in 1701"^[1]. Another Tecchler cello (1723 Rome) is played by young Turkish cellist Benyamin Sönmez. Martha Babcock, Assistant Principal cello at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Principal cello for the Boston Pops owns a Tecchler named the “ex-Feuermann" (1741 Rome). Steven Doane, who is a Professor of Cello at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester; plays on a David Tecchler cello, dated 1720. Marcy Rosen, soloist and member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet plays on an exceptionally beautiful Tecchler cello dated 1720. The cello was owned by the famous Francais family of Luthiers for three generations and was shown in Jacques Francais' Lincoln Center Stainer exhibition in the 1980s. Internationally renowned cellist Yehuda Hanani performs on a 1730 Tecchler that is of particular beauty, tonally and visually, previously in the possession of the Von Mendelssohn family.

Possibly the most famous Tecchler cello known today is the "ex Roser" of Rome 1723, currently being played by soloist Robert Cohen. The scroll of the "ex Roser" is a sculpted portrait of its commissioner, David Tecchler's employer in Rome, who resided in the Vatican.

Ray Shows, founding member of the Artaria String Quartet (Boston 1986), professor at St. Olaf College and 2004 prizewinner of a McKnight Fellowship plays a violin by David Tecchler from the year 1726.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to an Archlute by David Tecchler from around the year 1725.

References

• http://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/pghsymph.nsf/bios/Anne+Martindale+Williams

1. ^ http://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/pghsymph.nsf/bios/Anne+Martindale+Williams

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Name	Tecchler, David
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Date of birth	1666
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Date of death	1748
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