Giovanni Francesco Pressenda

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Giovanni Francesco Pressenda (born January 6, 1777 in Lequio Berria near Alba , † December 12, 1854 in Turin ) was an Italian violin maker .

Pressenda, born the son of a traveling musician, learned to play the violin from his father. His training workshop as a violin maker is currently not verifiable, older sources name Lorenzo Storioni as his teacher, recent research refutes this and comes from the violin maker Nicolas Lété-Pillement, who came from the French violin-making metropolis Mirecourt , who worked in Turin . Pressendas violins are characterized by a good tone. He built it based on a model by Antonio Stradivari , but with a slightly higher frame and a less neatly crafted scroll . The instruments were held in high esteem after the violinist August Wilhelmj had played on a press agenda since the end of the 19th century.

Press work influenced Italian violin making in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. Giuseppe Antonio Rocca is one of his students . The value of his instruments has been in the upper price range since the beginning of the 20th century, and they have been and are often copied. Annibale Fagnola (1865–1939) is considered the best copyist of the Pressenda violins .

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SURNAME Press conference, Giovanni Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pressenda, Gianfrancesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violin maker
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Lequio Berria at Alba
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1854
Place of death Turin