Giovanni Battista Ceruti
Giovanni Battista Ceruti (* 1756 in Sesto ; † 1817 in Cremona ) was an Italian lute and violin maker. Without direct reference to the great violin-making tradition of the 17th and 18th centuries around Antonio Stradivari and Andrea Guarneri , Giovanni Battista Ceruti, together with Lorenzo Storioni , revived this violin-making tradition in Cremona.
life and work
Giovanni Battista Ceruti was born in Sesto near Cremona in 1756 . In 1786 he moved to Cremona and worked there in the textile trade. About ten years later, at the age of forty, he joined violin making there, after having met the Bergonzi brothers Carlo and Nicola, who were also active in the textile trade and who were involved in violin making as a hobby. Ceruti became a student of Lorenzo Storioni in Cremona . Storioni left Cremona in 1802 and Ceruti took over his workshop. After Storioni's departure, Ceruti made a significant number of violins from ordinary materials but with the highest levels of precision and craftsmanship.
In addition to Storioni, Ceruti and his successors stand for the revival of the Cremonese violin making, which dominated it for three generations. Giovanni Battista Ceruti probably died in 1817 of the typhus epidemic that raged in Cremona that year. His son Giuseppe Antonio Ceruti and his grandson Enrico Ceruti continued the family's violin making tradition in Cremona.
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- Tarisio: Instrument maker (archive). In: Cozio Archive. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ceruti, Giovanni Battista |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian lute and violin maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1756 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sesto |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1817 |
| Place of death | Cremona |