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The Guarneri (/ ɡ w ɑːr ˈ n ɛər i /, [1] [2] UK also /-ˈ n ɪər-/, [3] Italian: [ɡwarˈnɛːri]), often referred to in the Latinized form Guarnerius, is the family name of a group of distinguished luthiers from Cremona in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries, whose standing is considered comparable to those of the Amati and Stradivari families.
Bartolomeo Giuseppe "del Gesù" Guarneri (/ ɡ w ɑːr ˈ n ɛər i /, [1] [2] UK also /-ˈ n ɪər-/, [3] Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ɡwarˈnɛːri]; 21 August 1698 – 17 October 1744) was an Italian luthier from the Guarneri family of Cremona.
Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, better known as Giuseppe filius Andrea Guarneri (25 November 1666 – c. 1739/1740) was a violin maker from the prominent Guarneri family of luthiers who lived in Cremona, Italy.
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 ...
Pietro Giovanni Guarneri (1655–1720), also known as Pietro da Mantua or Peter Guarnerius of Mantua was a violin maker of the Guarneri family who also worked as a professional musician. Today his instruments are highly regarded, though quite rare. They are played by musicians such as Joseph Szigeti.
Catarina Guarneri (c. 1699 – c. 1748), also known as Katarina Rota prior to marriage, was the wife of luthier Giuseppe Guarneri, and a suspected luthier in her own right. Accounts handed down from Carlo Bergonzi II, the grandson of Giuseppe Guarneri, provide evidence that Catarina Guarneri assisted her husband in his work.
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 ...
Sometimes referred to as Pietro da Venezia, he was the son of Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, filius Andreae, and the last of the Guarneri house of violin-makers. Guarnieri lived in Cremona with his father until 1717. Finding life in Casa Guarnieri in some way uncongenial, he left Cremona for good in 1717.