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It was stolen by the Nazis, after 78 years the "queen" of violins may have been found

2022-11-04 22:15:19Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
It was stolen by the Nazis, after 78 years the "queen" of violins may have been found

When it comes to expensive musical instruments, undoubtedly those built with unsurpassed talent by Antonio Stradivari in the late 17th and early 18th centuries are the most popular.

Their fame, mainly of violins, comes not only from the excellent sound that has not suffered a decline over the centuries, but also for the great value they have, since of around 1,000 of them, a little more than half are still functional , or its location is known.  

Of these, only 26 carry a double name, usually from the personalities who owned it, or the prominent musicians who performed with it. Their value, obviously, is even greater, considering that the record auction sale for such an instrument has reached 16 million dollars.

One of these rare violins, the Stradivari Lauterbach, named after the 19th-century German virtuoso Johann Christoph Lauterbach, who once owned it, disappeared in World War II-ravaged Poland, and until recently months ago it was thought to have been added to the list of objects lost forever.

But a few months ago, an anonymous person in Paris contacted an agency specializing in rare objects lost during that war, claiming they were right across from the original Lauterbach, built in 1791.

The agency led by lawyer Corinne Hershkovitch began a search that looks like a movie script, and that takes you back to the time when Nazi rule over Europe seemed unstoppable.

The last known owner of "Lauterbcach" was the Polish industrialist Henryk Grohman, in 1901, but when he died in 1939, shortly before the outbreak of war, the precious object was not mentioned in his will. This is where history merges with legend.

Some evidence says that the violin did not pass down to the heirs because it was Grohman's will to display it in the Warsaw museum, giving once a year a talented young musician the opportunity to play the instrument.

The Nazi occupation changed everything, and the museum management managed to hide some of these precious instruments in a space built on the floor of a church in the Polish city.

But from there, Stradivari Lauterbach disappeared. Some say that after the war a very similar instrument was found by American forces in the apartment of Nazi officer Theodor Blank, but they had lost track of it there.

The instrument found in Paris may explain many of the mysteries of these decades, or perhaps leave them forever in the shadows of history.

But the find has of course also a monetary aspect. The anonymous person who currently owns the precious instrument is interested in an auction sale, which if authenticated could lead to it breaking any records, and in turn the descendants of the last owner, the Grohman family, could be also interested in bringing the violin back to Poland.

Paradoxically, Polish laws themselves may hinder them. Due to the amount of objects that are requested to be returned to their owners, in 2021 the executive of Warsaw passed a law that sets the limit for requesting such objects to 30 years, this deadline has passed.

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