Giovanni Ferrini

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Giovanni Ferrini (* around 1699 in Florence ; † January 16, 1758 , ibid) was an Italian musical instrument maker . He was a student of Bartolomeo Cristofori and worked in his workshop.

After Cristofori's death in 1731, he stayed in Florence and replaced Bartolomeo Cristofori as an instrument maker at the Medicis court in Florence. He was the main beneficiary in Cristofori's first will, but in the second will he was awarded a sum of money and the main inheritance was given to members of the Mela family. He ran a workshop in Florence and the last work attributed to him was the restoration of a harpsichord made by Girolamo Zenti in 1755. This instrument is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City .

Preserved instruments

Zenti harpsichord from 1666, restored and rebuilt by Ferrini in 1755

Three Ferrini instruments have survived to this day. A spinet from 1731 is privately owned in Pistoia . Another instrument from 1746 with two manuals , which has both harpsichord and piano construction features, is owned by the Collezione Tagliavini in Bologna . The third instrument is a Zenti harpsichord from 1666, which Ferrini restored and rebuilt in 1755. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Meyer: Keyboard instruments in collections and their builders. Hamburg 2008, p. 126 ( full text [PDF; 12.6 MB; accessed on July 2, 2017]).
  2. ^ Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini: Giovanni Ferrini and His Harpsichord 'a penne ea martelletti' . In: Early Music . tape 19 , no. 3 . Oxford University Press, August 1991, pp. 399-408 , JSTOR : 3127777 .
  3. ^ Igor Kipnis: The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Encyclopedia . Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-135-94977-8 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ a b Harpsichord, Girolamo Zenti. In: metmuseum.org. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i. e. The Met Museum, accessed July 2, 2017 .
  5. ^ Collezione Tagliavini. In: bolognawelcome.com. June 9, 2017, accessed July 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ferrini, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian musical instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH around 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1758
Place of death Florence