Matteo Goffriller (b 1659; d 1742) , Venice (from 1685)
"Matteo Goffriller is
generally considered to be the founder of the Venetian school of violin making.
He was born in the Tyrolean town of Bressanone, not far from Bolzano, where he
may well have learned the craft of violin making from
Matteo Albani.
In 1685 he moved to Venice, where he was apprenticed to
Martin Kaiser.
Showing considerable acumen for business as well as courtship, he married
Kaiser's daughter in the following year, and had inherited Kaiser's business by
1690. For the next twenty-five years Goffriller was unrivalled in his
position as Venice's principal maker of stringed instruments, and he had a
profound influence on all the great Venetian makers of the early 18th
century —
Montagnana,
Gobetti,
Tononi,
Serafin
and Pietro Guarneri.
His trademark deep red varnish, possibly inherited from Albani, was to
become the hallmark of a Venetian instrument. He is best known for his cellos,
which are considered inferior only to those of
Stradivari
and Montagnana."
(excerpted from Four Centuries of
Violin Making by Tim Ingles.)
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