Giovanni Battista Guadagnini

Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (* June 23, 1711 in Bilegno ( Borgonovo Val Tidone ); † September 18, 1786 in Turin) was the most famous violin makers of the Guadagnini family and son of Lorenzo Guadagnini violin maker, Antonio Stradivari of an alleged student.

Importance

The members of the Guadagnini family built from the 18th century to the 20th century excellent violins.

The violinist Carl Flesch manifests itself in his book The art of violin playing negatively about the "transparent " for the concert hall unsuitable sound of Guadagnini violins. He called them maliciously as " factory violins of the 17th century". Despite this statement concerted great violinist personalities of the 19th century on these instruments, as Henri Vieuxtemps, Henryk Wieniawski and Hubert Léonard. Alma Rosé, one of the leaders of the girl orchestra of Auschwitz played on a Guadagnini violin.

Even today, the Guadagnini instruments are highly appreciated and played by many soloists, such as the violinist Melanie Michaelis, Julia Fischer, Tasmin Little, Sophia Jaffé, Lara St. John, Vanessa Mae, the violinist Viktoria Mullova or David Garrett and Ernst Kovacic and the cellists Chang Han -na, Gabetta and cellist Kleinhapl.