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Even Now, Music in the Family
By James M. Keller
The New York Times, March 12th, 2000
By James M. Keller
The New York Times, March 12th, 2000
To most moderns, Guillaume de Machaut is a distant figure, familiar only from textbooks. But the New York
violin dealer Dietmar Machold has a more personal response to the medieval composer: he calls Machaut an
ancestor.
The instruments that pass through Machold Rare Violins, across Broadway from Lincoln Center, are a far cry
from the fiedels and vielles of Machaut's day. Mr. Machold's recent clients are said to include Vladimir Spivakov,
Midori and Hilary Hahn, who each, by one report in a famously tight-lipped business, may have paid as much
as $5 million for their Old Master violins. Mr. Machold declined to comment on these matters.
When he is not in New York -- or at one of the firm's offices in Tokyo, Zurich, Vienna or Bremen, Germany -
Mr. Machold relaxes at Schloss Eichbuchl, his home in Austria. It is in part a medieval castle, its oldest portions
having been dated to 1348, when Machaut was in midcareer. Its owners have included the youngest sister of
Napoleon and a daughter of Marie Antoinette, and it is big enough to house Mr. Machold's expansive collection
of antique sports cars. A Francophile whose literary preferences run to the 19th century, Mr. Machold owns
several recordings of Machaut's music.
"When you need a quiet moment in your day," he said, "listening to the Machaut Mass provides the reflection
you deserve."
violin dealer Dietmar Machold has a more personal response to the medieval composer: he calls Machaut an
ancestor.
The instruments that pass through Machold Rare Violins, across Broadway from Lincoln Center, are a far cry
from the fiedels and vielles of Machaut's day. Mr. Machold's recent clients are said to include Vladimir Spivakov,
Midori and Hilary Hahn, who each, by one report in a famously tight-
When he is not in New York -
having been dated to 1348, when Machaut was in midcareer. Its owners have included the youngest sister of
Napoleon and a daughter of Marie Antoinette, and it is big enough to house Mr. Machold's expansive collection
of antique sports cars. A Francophile whose literary preferences run to the 19th century, Mr. Machold owns
several recordings of Machaut's music.
"When you need a quiet moment in your day," he said, "listening to the Machaut Mass provides the reflection
you deserve."
