This article investigates the role played by the physician and violin maker Franz / Franjo / Francesco Kresnik in the discourse on violin making in the first half of the twentieth century. It also considers the effect of his presence at the Bicentenario stradivariano, the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari in Cremona in 1937, during the em>Ventennio—the two decades of
Francesco Rugeri (Cremona, b. c.1628; d. 28 October 1698), also known as Ruger, Rugier, Rugeri, Ruggeri, Ruggieri, Ruggerius, was the first of an important family of luthiers, the Casa Rugeri in Cremona, Italy. His instruments are masterfully constructed. His violins are inspired by Nicolò Amati's "Grand Amati" pattern. Francesco was the first
The stratospheric rise in popularity of the violin across Europe is witnessed from the 1650s onwards through the growth in violin making in a way that is perhaps more dramatic than is indicated through a musical history of composers and their works. In the preceding decades, Nicolo Amati was the only violin maker in Cremona of any note, but his
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famous italian violin maker from cremona