Mantua · about 1750
Historical maker
Named in 2 books.
What the books printed
The heart of music, Chapin, Anna Alice. Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1906. Scan 215.
Albani, like Marcus Stainer and many other makers, gave particular attention to his varnish. His violins, which were made with very high, curving bellies, to throw the sound out in a heavy volume, were covered with deep red varnish that in some lights looked brown and in others purple. His son, who was a violin maker also, settled in Palermo and achieved very little fame, preferring to model his instruments upon the patterns of the old German makers.
Dictionary of Violin makers, Arnold Sewell. 1928. Scan 27.
ALBANI (Nicolaus) — Mantua circa 1750. This violin maker does not seem to belong to the Albani family of Botzen. His model is large and covered with a fine, pale red varnish. The tone of his instruments is fine and rich. No 379.
- Entries from 2 books stand under this name, and nobody has judged yet whether they mean the same person.
Same name
Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say. 7 more Albani pages under A.
Same town, same time
19 other Mantua makers have a year in the 1700s. A few of them:
- 1739 to 1750 Camilli, Camillus (Camilus di Camila)
- about 1740 Camillus, Camilli
- about 1750 Barbieri, Pietro
- 1764 Stefanini, Carlo
- 1764 to 1790 Steffanini, Carlo
- 1765 to 1819 Zanti, Alessandro