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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 ...
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 "ex-Primrose" Guarneri is an antique viola named after the viola player William Primrose who purchased it in 1954. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This late 17th-century instrument is one of seven known Guarneri family violas.
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 .
In 1954, Primrose purchased the 1697 Guarneri viola now known as the ex-Primrose. [26] [27] This viola is one of seven known Guarneri family violas. [28] 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 ...
Andrea Guarneri; Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu; Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri; Pietro Guarneri; Pietro Giovanni Guarneri; Martin Hoffmann; Klotz; Johann Kulik; René François Lacôte; Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi; Nicolas Lupot; Giovanni Paolo Maggini; Christian Frederick Martin; Charles Mennégand; Zanetto Micheli; Pellegrino Micheli ...
Pietro Guarneri was the eldest son of the master luthier Andrea Guarneri and Anna Maria di Orcelli, born in Cremona, Italy on 18 February 1655. Although the exact date he began working in his father's workshop is unknown, experts have found traces of his workmanship beginning about 1670 in instruments labeled as Andrea Guarneri.
The most illustrious member of the house of Guarneri, Bartolomeo was the son of Giuseppe Giovanni Battista, thus the grandson of Andrea Guarneri, [8] both noted violin makers themselves. Andrea learned his trade as an apprentice of Nicolò Amati, to whom Stradivari was also apprenticed. Undoubtedly, Giuseppe learned the craft of violinmaking in ...