Johann Maria Anciuti

Johann Italian Giovanni Maria Anciuti (* 1674 in Forni di Sopra , Udine, † 1744 in Milan ) was a personality of the musical instrument making art . Around 1720 he worked in Milan, which at that time belonged to Austria . Many of the instruments he has survived are still used today as models for reproducing historical instruments from the Baroque era. The instruments that could be safely assigned to him date from the years 1709–1740 and mostly bear a stamp with the Venetian lion. The ivory baroque oboe in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, comes from the Gioachino Rossini instrument collection , which was sold after his death in Paris. A rosewood and ivory oboe from 1730 (Alfredo Bernardini Collection, Amsterdam) is now being recreated by various instrument makers (e.g. Westermann, Taglinger, Sand N. Dalton) and played in concerts.

His recorder, which is kept in the Styrian State Museum Johanneum in Graz , is now popular again. This has the following reason: While many recorders of the Baroque period are adapted from their original low pitch (usually a = approx. 415 Hz ) to a modern pitch when they are copied  , and lose much of their original character, the above-mentioned instrument is in high pitch , which corresponds to a tuning of a = 440 Hz. Thus it can be integrated into the modern cultural scene without any difficulties and with just a few changes. It is signed with the year 1717 and made of stained boxwood . (The historical alternatives grenadilla and ebony as well as some less authentic tropical substitute woods are now often rejected for reasons of environmental protection ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.jstor.org/stable/41701495
2. ↑ http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O58912/oboe-anciuti-giovanni-maria/
3. ↑ Bruce Haynes: The Eloquent Oboe, A History of the Hautboy from 1640 to 1760 , Oxford Early Music Series, ISBN 0-19-816646-X