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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 "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.
His pupil, Andrea Guarneri, was present at the ceremony and signed the register. [22] Nicolo and Lucrezia had four sons and four daughters. [ 23 ] Their son Girolamo Amati ( Hieronymus II, b. 1649; d. 1740) (known as Girolamo II) was the family's last luthier.
Andrea Guarneri, luthier and founder of the house of Guarneri violin makers (died 1698) [1] Alessandro Badiale, painter (died 1671) [2] Giordino, Luc. painter (died 1705) [3] Giovanni Legrenzi , composer [4]
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.
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.