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Thought to be born in 1626 to Bartolomo Guarneri in the parish of Cremona, Italy, very little is known about Andrea Guarneri's ancestors. [3] There are records of a wood-carver by the name of Giovanni Battista Guerine, which may have been an alternative spelling of Guarneri, who lived near the residence of Nicolò Amati in Cremona in 1632, and it is possible that Andrea Guarneri was a relation ...
In the late 1970s, Verhey acquired the 'Earl Spencer', a Stradivarius from 1712 which she played until she acquired a violin by Andrea Guarneri from 1676 in the late nineties. In 2000, Verhey commissioned a copy of her Andrea Guarneri, made by the Dutch violinmaker Lambert Houniet.
He plays a 1766 Carlo Ferdinando Gagliano violin lent him by the Salvatore Cicero Foundation in Palermo, an Andrea Guarneri (Cremona, 1686) violin and also a Desiderio Quercetani violin for recording and play. He is married to Ana de Labra. They have one child. He also has three children with a former wife. [2]
A Guarneri violin is a center object in one of Andrea Camilleri's main Montalbano novels La Voce del violino ("The voice of the violin"). In the summer of 2010, the ex- Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù, a violin built in 1741 by Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri, was offered for sale at auction with a starting bid of $18 million, the highest price ever ...
Catarina Guarneri was born Katarina Rota in Vienna, but her name is recorded as Catarina on several documents. [1] It is suspected Rota moved to Cremona with the Imperial Austrian army around 1707 onward. [1] In 1722, Rota was married to Giuseppe Guarneri, the grandson of Andrea Guarneri and from a long line of violin makers. [2]
A Stradivarius violin made at the "pinnacle" of Antonio Stradivari’s career sold at auction for an eye-popping price this week.. The musical instrument, crafted in 1714 by Stradivari, the ...
Veronica was 18 at the time; Andrea had just divorced his first wife, Enrica Cenzatti (with whom he shares two sons, Amos and Matteo), after 10 years of marriage. Veronica and Andrea in Milan ...
Primrose became a professional violinist in 1924. In London, on October 2, 1928, William married Dorothy Friend, daughter of Arthur John Friend and Susanna Jane Luscombe. He moved from violin to viola in 1930 when he became the violist of the London String Quartet. He was joined in the group by Warwick Evans, John Pennington, and Thomas Petre.