Giuseppe Fiorini

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Giuseppe Fiorini (around 1920)

Giuseppe Fiorini (born September 27, 1861 in Bazzano , † January 24, 1934 in Munich ) was an Italian - German violin maker .

Life

Panoramica Liuteria Bolognese Moderna

Giuseppe Fiorini, son of Raffaele Fiorini (1828–1898) moved with his parents to Bologna in 1867 and received an extensive education there. From the end of 1876 he learned the craft of violin from his father. In 1881 he started his own business. He mainly carried out repairs, built cellos and traded in old masterpieces in order to avoid competition with his father. After repeated trips to Germany, he married the daughter of Andreas Rieger in Munich and ran his business first under Rieger & Fiorini , then from 1899 under Giuseppe Fiorini . In his new hometown he was solely concerned with building new violins and trading old master violins. Because of the First World War , he moved his workshop to Zurich in May 1915 . In 1923 he moved with his company to Rome , shortly afterwards to Bologna and in 1928 returned to Munich, where he retired.

Architectural style and meaning

His instruments, which he made entirely himself, have a typical Italian character and do not correspond to any historical models. He has built more than 500 instruments. He was valued as a profound violin connoisseur and was a co-founder and board member of the German Violin Makers Association, as well as chairman of the expert commission for the assessment of old instruments.

In his last years he was able to acquire the Stradivarius collection of Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue (1755-1840) for 100,000 lire . In addition to several instruments, the collection also contained tools, models, manuscripts, instructions for priming and paint formulas. In 1930 he bequeathed this collection to the city of Cremona , where it can be viewed today in the Museo del Violino .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg: The violin and lute makers from the Middle Ages to the present. Keller, Frankfurt 1913, vol. 2, p. 138 ff.
  2. ↑ a b c Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg: The violin and lute makers from the Middle Ages to the present. Schneider, Tutzing 1990, supplementary volume, ISBN 3-7952-0616-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Fiorini, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-German violin maker
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Bazzano
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1934
Place of death Munich