Venice Research is devoted to the research of all aspects of the musical life in Venice, the Venetian makers of string instruments and their work, from the Sixteenth century to modern times. It has published essays and antique documents, as well as presenting precise English translations of unedited archival documentation on Venetian makers of string instruments.
Book Viol and Lute Makers of Venice 1490 - 1630.
Book Violin and Lute Makers of Venice 1640 - 1760.
Book Liuteri e Sonadori, Venezia 1750-1870
Michele Deconet the Travelling Violinist
Some dealers prefer to disregard the fact that Deconet was not a violin maker and probably never made one instrument in his life. If you prefer to believe the data gleaned from documents stored in the Venice archives instead of the opinions of commercially interested parties, I invite you to read the following piece. By the way of example, the auction record for a “Deconet violin, Venice 1759” contradicts the fact that during this year, Deconet was outside of Venice on a three year long journey, as declared by himself in one original document stored here in Venice…
A Venetian violinist: Luigi Enrico Ferro and the Vivaldi renaissance.
Il Teatro “La Fenice” 1810 – 1870: nascita di un’orchestra moderna.
The “La Fenice” Theatre1810 – 1870: the Birth of a Modern Orchestra
The life of Giorgio
Serafin and His Bottega alla Cremona
The following
piece deals with the life of the little known Venetian violin maker Giorgio
Serafin and his relationship with Domenico Montagnana. Do you know that Giorgio
Serafin used the name of Montagnana after his death for 17 years? I hope you
will enjoy reading these excepts of unedited archival documentation, drawn
from the book: "Violin makers and players, Venice 1750 -1870".
PS: All the documents herein mentioned have been uncovered within the various Venice archives, and their specific placement is identified within the Notes of the my books.
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