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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
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1and this circumstance may have given to his work that Italian air which is so pleasing to the connoisseur.¹ This maker is often credited with the work of the elder Albani, it having been supposed that there was but one of that name. The model is good, and the workmanship throughout demands high praise. Gerber states that the famous Violinist, Tomaso Albinoni, possessed two Violins of this maker, dated 1702 and 1709.
3ALBANI, Paolo, Palermo, about 1633. Probably related to the Albanis of Botzen. See Italian makers.
5ALETZIE, Paolo, Munich. See Italian makers.
7Paulus Aletzee hof
8Lauten und Geigenmacher in Munchen 1710.
10ARTMANN, ——, Weimar, near Gotha, 18th century. Was originally a joiner. Copied Amati very cleverly. The varnish is frequently of amber colour.
12BACHMANN, Carl Ludwig, born at Berlin, 1716. Court musician and Violin-maker. The work is clean, and not without style. Bachmann was a performer on the Viol. In 1765 he was appointed instrument maker to the court of Frederick the Great. Bachmann, in conjunction with Ernest Benda, founded in 1770 the concerts for amateurs at Berlin. He died in 1800.
14BACHMANN, O., Halberstadt, Violin-maker, and
16¹ He appears to have worked for a time in Rome, from which city some instruments are dated.
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