Hans Angerer (instrument maker)

Hans Angerer (* around 1620 in Rückholz (near Füssen), † 1650 in Turin ) was a German lute maker . When he married the aristocratic Anna Margarita Beinasca in Turin on June 2, 1647, the groom's profession is called "fabbricante di chitarre", guitar maker, the first and oldest reference to string instrument making in Turin.

Life

Hans Angerer, born probably around 1620 in Rückholz, a small town northwest of Füssen in the dominion of the Sankt Mang monastery , was the son of the tavern keeper Georg Angerer and his wife Christina. After his father died in 1627, the boy Hans Angerer was sent to his older cousin Sebastian Angerer in Genoa , presumably to learn the lute-making trade there.

In 1642, however, he seems to have opened his own workshop in Turin , because the Füssen lute maker Hans Fichtold sent him lute wood to Turin for 20 gulden. Turin has been magnificently built up and expanded in an absolutist manner by the Dukes of Savoy since 1563 as the capital and residence. The developing court life also created a market for musical instrument makers.

successor

But Hans Angerer died in 1650 and his workshop was sold to Henrico Catenar. Henrico Catenar, Heinrich Casner, also came from Germany. He married the widow Anna Margarita Angerer and continued to run the workshop very successfully. He is considered to be the founder of violin making in Turin, whose roots go back to the Füssen lute and violin making .

literature

• Kass, Philip J .: Italy's import. In: The Strad, May 1998, pp. 482-487.
• Riedmiller, Thomas: Hans Angerer (before 1627–1650): an instrument maker from Füssen in Turin. in: Alt Füssen. Yearbook of the historical association "Alt Füssen" 2006, Füssen 2007, 54–57.