Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (born June 23, 1711 in Bilegno ( Borgonovo Val Tidone ), † September 18, 1786 in Turin ) was the most famous violin maker of the Guadagnini family and son of the violin maker Lorenzo Guadagnini , an alleged student of Antonio Stradivari .
meaning
The members of the Guadagnini family made excellent violins from the 18th century to the 20th century .
In his book The Art of Violin Playing, the violinist Carl Flesch expresses himself negatively about the "glass" sound of the Guadagnini violins, which is unsuitable for the concert hall. He maliciously dubbed them “Manufactory violins of the 17th century”. Despite this statement, great violin personalities of the 19th century gave concerts on these instruments, such as Henri Vieuxtemps , Henryk Wieniawski or Hubert Léonard . Alma Rosé , one of the directors of the Auschwitz Girls' Orchestra , played a Guadagnini violin.
Even today, the Guadagnini instruments are highly valued and played by numerous soloists, such as the violinists Zia Hynsu Shin, Melanie Michaelis , Julia Fischer , Tasmin Little , Sophia Jaffé , Lara St. John , Alissa Margulis , Vanessa-Mae , Viktoria Mullova , Sandrine Cantoreggi , Eldbjørg Hemsing , Mari Silje Samuelsen , Carolin Widmann or the violinist David Garrett and Ernst Kovacic and cellists Chang Han-na , Sol Gabetta and the cellist Kleinhapl and Thomas Beckmann .
literature
- Duane Rosengard: Giovanni Battista Guadagnini: the life and achievement of a master maker of violins . Haddonfield, NJ: Carteggiomedia, 2000; ISBN 0-9704229-0-3 .
- Sharon Que: A gallery of stars . In: theStrad , February 2012, pp. 22-23
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of Alissa Margulis ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Biography of Kovacic at his agency
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guadagnini, Giovanni Battista |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guagnini |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian violin maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1711 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bilegno |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1786 |
| Place of death | Turin |