The Cozio Archive
Welcome to Cozio, the world’s largest reference resource for buyers, sellers and connoisseurs of fine stringed instruments and bows.
Founded in 2003 as a public registry of iconography, provenance and pricing information for historical stringed instruments, Cozio encompasses over 36,000 individual instruments and bows by over 3,500 makers. It is also the most comprehensive online source for maker biographies and provenance information, and contains over 57,000 historical auction prices.
Although most of Cozio is available to the public by subscription, it also contains photographs, documents and records of instruments and bows that are accessible only by request. If you would like information about any item that is not publicly available, please contact us.
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Continuing the legacy; The ‘Schneeberger’ Stradivari
For nearly all of its known history, the 1731 ‘Schneeberger’ Stradivari has been in the hands of exceptional musicians. Most recently, it was in the possession of the celebrated Swiss violinist Hansheinz Schneeberger who owned the instrument for more than sixty years. Earlier this year, Tarisio Private Sales sold the ‘Schneeberger’ to an anonymous patron for the long-term use of Arnaud Sussmann.
By Jason PriceBorn in Bern in 1926, Hansheinz Schneeberger studied with Walter Kägi, Carl Flesch and Boris Kamensky. In 1958 the 32-year-old Schneeberger was chosen to give the world premiere of Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1. From 1958 to 1961 he served as principal concertmaster of the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg until Paul Sacher invited […]
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