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Cremona: an account of the Italian violin-makers and their instruments, 1894
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176. GAGLIANO, Gennaro. Naples, 1700-1750. Brother of Nicolo, similar workmanship. (l)
377. GAGLIANO, Januarius. Naples, 1740. He calls himself a pupil of Stradivarius, but, with the exception of using a large, flat model, shows little trace of his master's influence.
5Januarius Gaglianus Alumnus Antonii Stradivarii fecit Neapoli A° 17—
778. GAGLIANO, Giovanni.
879. GAGLIANO, Antonio.
980. GAGLIANO, Raphael.
11Naples. They come down to the beginning of the present century. (m) With them the fame of the family ended. Their instruments are hardly worthy of notice.
1381. GALERZENA. Piedmont. But little known. (n)
1582. GARANI, Michael Angelo. Bologna, 1685-1720. A copyist of Stradivarius. His violas are the best of his instruments. (o)
1783. GARANI, Nicolo. Naples. He worked after the style of the Gagliano family, and was not inferior to them.
1984. GATTANANI. Piedmont, 1785. Without any especial merit.
21(l) The second son of Alessandro. His label is "Gennaro Gagliano fecit Neapoli 17—." He is generally considered to have been the best workman of the family.
23(m) The second and third sons of Nicolo were Giuseppe and Antonio. They were for the most part makers of cithers and mandolines of good quality, and used a label, "Joseph & Antonius Gagliano fecit anno 1787 in Platea dicta Cerriglio." Giuseppe died in 1793, and Antonio a few years later. Giovanni was the fourth son of Nicolo, and made violins of no great merit, with the label, "Joannes Gagliano nepos Januarii fecit Neapoli 18—." He died in 1806. He left two sons, Raffaele and Antonio, who worked in partnership; the former died on the 9th December, 1857, and the latter on the 27th June, 1860. The last survivor of the family is Vincenzo, the son of Raffaele, a well-known manufacturer of strings at Naples. Vide De Piccolellis.
25(n) He worked about 1790.
27(o) He made some violins with rather high archings, with a good quality of tone, though no great power: he used a light-coloured varnish rather thinly put on.
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