Scan 71
The violin & its story : or the history & construction of the violin, 1905
24 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 55. See the scan on archive.org.
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1GENOA.
3DAVID POZZURNUS, 1762; BERNARDUS CALCANIUS, 1748; PAOLO CASTELLO, 1750.
5NAPLES.
7ALEXANDER GAGLIANO, 1695 to 1725. Vuillaume says Gagliano was an undoubted pupil of Stradivarius. A story is told that Gagliano had to suddenly leave Naples, as he had tried to murder a man who had attempted to run away with his bride. When this affair had blown over, Gagliano returned to Naples, and set up a workshop there for the manufacture of violins, etc. A musical paper of his day described him as "a genius so great that it could not be measured." It is said that at his Naples workshop his two sons Januarius and Nicholas made such progress that by degrees they were able to produce instruments resembling those of Stradivarius and the Amati; but this notion wants digesting.
9Other artists named Gagliano, in whose work we can recognise the Stradivarius pattern, were—NICHOLAS GAGLIANO, 1700 to 1740; FERDINAND, 1740 to 1750, and GENNARO, 1710 to 1750.
11RAFAEL and ANTONIA GAGLIANO, who are descendants of this family still living* gave up violin making, and founded one of the best known gut-string factories.
13As Neapolitan makers should be mentioned HANS MAN and DOMENICO SERESATI, though it is not quite certain where the latter worked.
15VERONA.
17BARTOLOMEO OBIZI.
19THE GERMAN SCHOOL.
21While the work of Italy was winning undying fame by the unexampled master-works of the Cremonese artists, a Tyrolian of the Nicholas Amati school, Jacob Stainer, was establishing an especial era of violin making in Germany.
23* That is, in the "sixties."—Translator.
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