Scan 41
Cremona: an account of the Italian violin-makers and their instruments, 1894
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1made and have such a fine tone that they approach those of his master in excellence. (v)
35. ALBANI, Signor. Palermo, 1633-1659. There is a good violin with this label in Brussels; besides this little of him is known.
5Signor Albani in Palermo 16—
7It is possible that he is identical with one of the following makers.
96. ALBANI, Michael. The middle of the seventeenth century: he studied at Cremona, and settled afterwards at Gratz.
117. ALBANI, Paolo. Palermo, 1650-1680. A pupil of Nicolas Amati: he made good instruments, with finished workmanship, broad model, clear brown varnish.
138. ALBANI, Paul. He was living in 1650 in Cremona, and died there.
159. ALETZIE, Paolo. Monaco, 1720-1736. He made tenors and violoncellos principally, of which some are excellent. His varnish is hard and plain. (w)
1710. ALVANI. Cremona, 1755. An able copyist of Joseph Guarnerius.
1911. AMATI, Andreas. Cremona, born 1520, died 1580. The founder of the Cremona school. It is doubtful who was his instructor. According to "Luthomonographie," he was Giovanni Marcus del Busetto, (Cremona, 1540-1580), from other sources he is said to have studied at Brescia, and it is thought from a certain resemblance which his violins have with those of Gaspard di Salo that he was a pupil of
21(v) The name runs Mattia, Matthias, and Mathias. He is stated to have been born at Botzen in 1621, to have worked there till about 1660, and then to have gone to Rome. Some of his instruments have carved heads. A viola with the label, "Gio. Paolo Albani fece in Bolzano 1723," was exhibited in Vienna in 1892.
23(w) Otherwise Aletzee: there appears to be some confusion about this maker. He is also stated to have worked for the most part at Munich, and to have been widely known by his viole d'amore. A maker of this name appears to have manufactured at Munich in 1780. A violin with a carved head, labelled "Paulus Aletsee Hof Lauten und Geigenmacher in München 1780," was exhibited in Vienna in 1892. This maker, considered to have originally worked in Italy, may have migrated to Germany: it is thought his instruments were copied and his labels imitated.
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