Pietro Guarneri

Pietro Guarneri (also Pietro Guarneri II and Pietro Guarneri da Venezia ; born April 14, 1695 in Cremona , † April 7, 1762 in Venice ) was an Italian violin maker . Sometimes the son of Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri , filius Andreae , is also referred to as Pietro da Venezia , he was the last important violin maker in the Guarneri family .

Guarneri lived in Cremona with his father Giuseppe Giovanni Battista until 1718 , with whom he fell out. He left Cremona permanently in 1718 and settled in Venice between 1722 and 1724. There he improved the working techniques known to him from his father's workshop with the work techniques used in Venice. Presumably he met the violin makers Montagnana and Tononi in Venice. In any case, Matteo Gofriller , Carlo Annibale Tononi , Francesco Gobetti , Domenico Montagnana and Sanctus Seraphin were also active in Venice at that time . Guarneri married Angiola Maria Ferrari on April 5, 1728, with whom he had ten children.

The first of the instruments that he provided with his own certificate of origin was made in Venice around 1730. They are rare and as expensive as those of his father and uncle Pietro Giovanni Guarneri from Mantua.

Well-known instruments

• 1723 violin , "Thibaud"
• 1726 violoncello , "Esterhazy"
• 1739 violoncello, "Beatrice Harrison"
• 1747 violin, "Joachim"

literature

• WE Hill & Sons: The Violin Makers of the Guarneri family, Their Life and Work . London 1931 (English) Reprints 1965, 1980, etc.
• Alessandra Cruciani:  Guarneri. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 60:  Grosso – Guglielmo da Forlì. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2003, (covers the whole family of violin makers).

Web links

• Guarneri on The Violin Site - Violin Making , theviolinsite.com (English)
• Information on guarneri.net : Pietro Guarneri excerpt from Hill; Instrument list according to Hill (accessed February 23, 2012)