Brescia · 1700 to 1760
Historical maker
Named in 4 books.
What the books printed
An encyclopedia of the violin, Alberto Bachmann. 1925. Page 38, scan 60. Held as more than one scan.
PASTA, GAETANO, Brescia, 1710 to 1760. The most important member of his family and a pupil of Hieronymus Amati. His violins are on a flat model, and a brilliant tone, somewhat resembling those of G. B. Rogeri.
The Violin, 1875. Page 69, scan 111. Held as more than one scan.
GAETANO, Pasta, Brescia, 1700. Good work. Model a little high. Varnish of soft quality.
A treatise on the structure and preservation of the violin and all other bow-instruments, London: R. Cocks & Co. [etc.], 1860. p. 64.
As printed on this page: "Gaetano Pasta, of Brescia........... from 1710 to ......"
Violins and violin makers. Biographical dictionary of the great Italian artistes, their followers and imitators, to the present time. With essays on important subjects connected with the violin, Pearce, Joseph. London: Longman and co.; Sheffield, J. Pearce, jun., 1866. Page 64, scan 72.
PASTA, GAETANO, Brescia, early in 18th Century.
- Entries from 4 books stand under this name, and the software judged them likely the same person. Tell us if that is wrong and we will split the record.
- Also on this site as Pasta, Gaetano
Same name
Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say.
Same town, same time
21 other Brescia makers have a year in the 1700s. A few of them:
- 1700 to 1730 Pasta, Antonio
- about 1700 Pasta, Dominico
- 1700 to 1725 Rugeri, P. G.
- 1700 to 1725 Rugerius, Pietro Giacomo
- 1705 to 1730 Pasta, Domenico et Gaetano
- 1706 Pasta, Gaetano