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Andrea Guarneri (b.1626; d.1698, in Cremona) was an Italian luthier, musician and founder of the Casa Guarneri. He is the most important student of Nicola Amati and grandfather of one of the best luthiers, Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri, del Gesù .
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 ...
The back of the viola is Italian maple and the front is open-grained spruce. It has a deep golden varnish with a subtle orange tint. [4] It bears an original label of Andrea Guarneri who died in 1698, but experts believe that they can recognise the workmanship of his son Giuseppe.
Giovanni Battista Giuseppe Guarneri (known as Giuseppe ‘filius Andreae’) was born on November 25, 1666, to Andrea Guarneri and Anna Maria Orcelli, in the parish of San Matteo in Cremona. A few years earlier his father had left the workshop of Nicolò Amati.
Andrea Guarneri, who eventually founded the Guarneri Family of violin makers, was Amati's pupil. [10] Francesco Rugeri may have been a pupil of Nicola Amati, however, like Antonio Stradivari, census records also fail to mention his name in the census of the Amati household. [11]
Andrea Guarneri; Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu; Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri; Pietro Guarneri; Pietro Giovanni Guarneri; Martin Hoffmann; Klotz; Johann Kulik;
Andrea Amati (c. 1505 – 20 December 1577) designed and created the violin, viola and cello known as the "violin family". Based in Cremona, Italy , he standardized the basic form, shape, size, materials and method of construction.
In 1954, Primrose purchased the 1697 Guarneri viola now known as the ex-Primrose. [20] [21] This viola is one of seven known Guarneri family violas. [22] It bears an original label of Andrea Guarneri who died in 1698, but experts believe that the work is that of his son Joseph Guarneri 'filius Andreae' who inherited his father's workshop. The ...