Scan 72
Joseph Guarnerius, his work and his master [Andreas Gisalberti], 1906
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1the registry in the Cathedral in Cremona. On the 11th he was baptised in the parish church of San Donato.
3His father's name was inserted in the registry as Giovanni Battista Guarneri, and his mother Angela Locadella. A mere trivial, most ordinary, every day happening, one would now think, but which may have been something of an event in the family, which must have been fairly well and widely known in the fiddle world of that day. The exact relationship of Giovanni Battista Guarneri to the others of the well-known family of the same surname is not yet precisely known. It has been asserted that tickets have been seen on which Giuseppe Guarneri stated he was nephew of Andrew, or, as he would Latinise it, Andrae nepos. These tickets may, or not, be spurious; I have not seen or met with any person who had seen them. But allowing these to be genuine, then G. B. Guarneri, the father of Giuseppe Guarneri, was brother of Andreas Guarnerius.
5Various writers on these particulars of the Guarneri family have seemingly got either very confused over the relationship, or have not taken the trouble to scrutinize all the data at their command.
7All that can be gathered concerning them seems to be agreeable to the assertion made by all writers that the father of the great Joseph Guarnerius was not a violin maker, or, at any rate up to the present he has not been known as one. We, however, may find the announcement made any day that he was, but that he did not make many instruments, or that his work is not now known. As instances in connection with this kind of discovery or resuscitation, may be mentioned the one in connection with Antonio Mariani, of Pesaro, whose instruments were said, in the work by Fétis, "to be made at random, and not even sought after as curiosities"—a later writer also declaring his disbelief in the existence of the maker at all. Time, however, settled the question, and the existence and coming to the market of nearly a dozen, followed by some work of at least two of the sons, made the possibility evident, in the assertion of an
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