Got an itch to play that $3.9 million, 265-year-old violin you bought? Yeah. Me neither.
But after buying the instrument last month at a Sotheby’s auction, Maxim Viktorov, a 35-year-old Russian lawyer and violin collector, has that itch. Prior to last Saturday when noted violinist Pinchas Zukerman performed a private concert in Moscow, the 1741 Guarneri violin hadn’t been played in public in more than 70 years.
