Gasparo Duiffopruggar

Gasparo Duiffopruggar
Gasparo Duiffopruggar
Gasparo Duiffopruggar (1514 - c. 1570) - Engraving by Pierre Woeiriot (1532-1599)

Gasparo Duiffopruggar (1514 - c. 1570) (First name alternatively spelled "Gaspard," last name alternatively spelled "Dieffopruchar," or "Duiffoprugcar," "Duiffoprugghar" or "Duiffoprogar") is the name given to instrument maker Kaspar Tieffenbrucker. It is believed that Duiffopruggar was born in Bavaria and had moved to Lyon, where he did most of his work, by 1553. It is believed that he was one of the first to produce the violin in its basically modern form.

Actual Duiffopruggar instruments are rare and tend to be of the viol family. Most instruments bearing his labels are imagined "reproductions" of his instruments. The best examples come from the workshop of the Parisian violin-maker, Jean Baptiste Vuillaume. They were made for Vuillaume by Honore Derazey and sold to the public to supply the demand for older instruments. These instruments can be distinguished from the originals, however, by discrepancies in the labels of the violin, and more importantly, the workmanship and type of the instrument. Because no violin has ever been actually discovered to have been made by Tieffenbrucker, the current belief is that "Duiffopruggar" never actually made any violins, but rather that his name was used to sell a brand of commercial instruments made for Vuillaume.

References

  • Farga, Franz, Violins & Violinists. Trans. Egon Larson with Bruno Raikin. New York: Frederick A. Prager, 1969.

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