Cremona · about 1641
Historical maker
Named in 2 books.
What the books printed
The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, Hart, George. London, Dulau, 1887. Scan 132.
GENNARO, Giacomo. Worked at Cremona, in the shop of Niccolò Amati, about 1641. His name is mentioned in the parish registers in Cremona as being employed by Amati.
The violin, Hart, George. London: Dulau, 1909. Page 117, scan 163.
Gennaro, Giacomo. Worked at Cremona, in the shop of Niccolò Amati, about 1641. His name is mentioned in the parish registers in Cremona as being employed by Amati.
- Entries from 2 books stand under this name, and we are not sure they mean the same person. That is on hold until somebody settles it.
Same town, same time
62 other Cremona makers have a year in the 1600s. A few of them:
- about 1640 Acevo
- about 1640 Acevo
- 1640 to 1668 Ruger, F. (detto il per)
- 1640 to 1737 Stradivarius, Antonio
- born 1641 Mola, Francesco
- born 1648 Fraiser, Giorgio