- Gaetano Antoniazzi
Gaetano Antoniazzi (
August 7 1825 –August 1 1897 ) was an Italian violin-maker.Antoniazzi was born in
Cremona , where he learned his craft in the Ceruti workshop before establishing himself in Milan in 1870 and bringing with him the Cremonese tradition of his teachers Enrico andGiuseppe Ceruti . He died inMilan .It is only from this date until about 1890 that we find instruments signed by him. Gaetano Antoniazzi, along with his sons Riccardo and Romeo trained
Leandro Bisiach , and together with the Antoniazzis, Bisiach influenced the creation of a workshop environment that was to dominate early to middle 20th Century Italian violinmaking.The result of this highly successful business model was that Milan became a hotbed of skilled violinmakers.Under this system, many important 20th Century Italian violinmakers received their early training, among them
Gaetano Sgarabotto ,Giuseppe Ornati ,Ferdinando Garimberti ,Igino Sderci ,Rocchi Sesto , Cipriano Briani,Giuseppe Pedrazzini , Camillo Mandelli, Ferriccio Varagnolo, Camillo Colombo, Vincenzo Cavani, Pietro Paravicini, Albert Moglie, Andrea Bisiach,Carlo Bisiach , Pietro Borghi, Mirco Tarasconi, Leandro Jr. & Giacomo Bisiach, Iginio Siega and Carlo Ferrario.Gaetano's work is good, original and spontaneous, but not always very careful. The varnish is yellow-brown or sometimes red-brown in colour. His labels were generally handwritten.
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*cite news | url=http://www.maestronet.com/m_library/world_strings/fall83.pdf | title=Bisiach Family | publisher=William Moening & Sons Ltd. | author=Philip J. Kass| date=1983 | accessdate=2007-04-05
*cite news | url=http://www.maestronet.com/m%5Flibrary/world_strings/index.cfm | title=Selected World of Strings Newsletters | publisher=William Moening & Sons Ltd. | author=Philip J. Kass| date=1982 | accessdate=2007-04-05
*cite book | last=Blot | first=Eric | chapter=Emilia e Romagna I | title=Un secolo di liuteria italiana, 1860-1960 - A century of Italian violin making | location=Cremona | publisher=Turris | year=1994 | isbn=8879290266External links
*La Liuteria Italiana / Italian Violin Making in the 1800s and 1900s - Umberto Azzolina
*I Maestri Del Novicento - Carlo Vettori
*La Liuteria Lombarda del '900 - Roberto Codazzi, Cinzia Manfredini 2002
*Dictionary of 20th Century Italian Violin Makers -Marlin Brinser 1978
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*Walter Hamma , "Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst", Wilhelmshaven 1993, ISBN 3-7959-0537-0
* [http://www.liuteria-parmense.com/eng/storia_900.htm Liuteria Parmense]
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