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Pietro Guarneri (Peter of Venice or Pietro da Venezia) (April 14, 1695 - April 7, 1762), son of Giuseppe filius Andreae. The distinctive sound of a violin is the result of interactions between its many parts This list of notable fiddlers shows some crossover with the List of violinists since the instruments used are quite similar if not identical The violin first emerged in northern Italy in the early 16th century. Classical music Since the Baroque era the violin ( Baroque violin) has been one of the most important of all instruments in classical music, for several Making an instrument of the Violin family may be done in different ways many of which have changed very little in nearly 500 years since the first violins were made Playing the violin entails holding the instrument under the chin supported by the left shoulder (see below for variations of this posture A Violin consists of a body or corpus a neck a bridge, a soundpost four strings, and various fittings The Violin family of Musical instruments was developed in Italy in the Sixteenth century. The following lists of violinists are available List of classical violinists, names of great violinist from baroque era till 20th century Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Year 1762 ( MDCCLXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Last of the Guarneri violin-makers.
Lived in Cremona with his father until 1718. Finding life in Casa Guarneri in some way uncongenial, left Cremona for good in 1718. The master eventually arrived and settled in Venice 1722-1724.
Here he blended the Cremonese techniques of his father with Venetian, perhaps working with Montagnana and Tononi. The Venetian makers of the same period were Matteo Gofriller, Carlo Annibale Tononi, Francesco Gobetti, Domenico Montagnana and Sanctus Seraphin. Matteo Goffriller (1659 – 1742 was an Italian Luthier, particularly noted for the quality of his Cellos Although it is known that Goffriller was Carlo Annibale Tononi (1675-1730 was a Luthier who trained and worked with his father in the Tononi family workshop in Bologna Italy until his father Domenico Montagnana (1686-1750 was an Italian Master Luthier based in Venice, Italy. Sanctus Seraphin (1699-c1758 (Also known as Santo Also known as Serafin Serafino was a financially successful Luthier, (violin maker working first in Udine
By 1728 he married Angiola Maria Ferrari on 5th of April (1728), with whom he had ten children.
His first original labels from Venice date from 1730. His instruments are rare and as highly prized as those of his father and uncle.
References
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- The Violin Makers of the Guarneri family, Their Life and Work - W. Walter Hamma ( 22 September 1916 - 11 August 1988) was a German Violin maker. E. Hill & Sons, London, 1965
- Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu
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- The Henry Hottinger Collection - Rembert Wurlitzer, 1967
- "The Henry Hottinger Collection", The Strad, October, 1965.
- Capolavori di Antonio Stradivari, Charles Beare, Arnoldo Mondadori S. p. A. , Milan, 1987.
- A Thousand Mornings of Music, Arnold Gingrich, Crown Publishers, New York, 1970.
- Antonius Stradivarius, Dirk J. Balfoort, The Continental Book Company, Stockholm, 1945.
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- Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mitteralter bis zur Gegenwart, Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff, Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main, 1922.
- Italian Violin Makers, Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1964.
- Italian Violin-Makers, Karel Jalovec, Orbis, Prague, 1952.
- Italienische Geigenbauer (1957), Karel Jalovec, Artia, Prague, 1957.
- Loan Exhibition of Stringed Instruments and Bows Commemorating the 70th Birthday of Simone Fernando Sacconi, Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 1966.
- Meisterwerke Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Fridolin Hamma, Hamma & Co. , 1932.
- The Violin: Its physical and acoustic principles, Paolo Peterlongo, Paul Elek, London, 1979.
- "Eighteenth-Centruy Connections Through Musical Instruments", Gary Sturm, Journal of The Violin Society of America, Vol. IX, No. 2, 1988.
- "Exhibition of Violins and Bows in the Smithsonian Collection", Gary Sturm, Journal of The Violin Society of America, Vol. V, No. 2, Spring, 1979.
- "Guided Tour of the Library of Congress Collection of Stringed Instruments", Robert Bein, Journal of The Violin Society of America, Volume XVII, No. 2, November 4-7, 1999.
- "Ne Plus Ultra", John Dilworth, The Strad, December, 1987.
- 36 Famous Italian Violins, Alex Wasinski, Herman Gordon, New York, 1975.
- Evelyn & Herbert Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection, Herbert Axelrod, 2002.
- "Poster supplement", The Strad, September, 1987.
- Italian Violin-Makers, Karel Jalovec, Orbis, Prague, 1952.
- Beautiful Italian Violins, Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1963.
- The Miracle Makers, Bein & Fushi, Chicago, 1998.
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