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Pages in category "Giuseppe Guarneri violins" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
A Guarneri violin is a center object in one of Andrea Camilleri's main Montalbano novels La Voce del violino ("The voice of the violin"). In the summer of 2010, the ex- Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù, a violin built in 1741 by Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri, was offered for sale at auction with a starting bid of $18 million, the highest price ever ...
Robert Bein and Geoffrey Fushi established Bein & Fushi, Inc. in 1976. [4] Since its inception, the shop has arranged deals for the sale of violins, violas, cellos, and bows by well-known luthiers such as Antonio Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, Nicola Amati, Antonio Amati, Carlo Bergonzi, François Xavier Tourte, Giovanni Guadagnini, Alessandro Gagliano, Santo Serafin, Gasparo da ...
Fewer than 200 of Guarneri's instruments survive. They are all violins, although one cello bearing his father's label, dated 1731, seems to have been completed by del Gesù. The quality and scarcity of his instruments have resulted in sale prices in excess of $10 million USD. An asteroid has been named 19185 Guarneri in his honour. [7]
After the death of American violinist Isaac Stern in 2001, his estate decided to sell his entire collection of instruments, bows, and musical ephemera through Tarisio. Among world record prices in the May 2003 sale was $130,000 paid for a modern copy of one of Stern's Guarneri violins by Brooklyn maker Samuel Zygmuntowicz.
The firm soon gained a widespread reputation for expertise and dealing in fine instruments. They were also established as makers of instruments, bows, cases and fittings. A Hill's Certificate of Authenticity is considered definitive worldwide throughout the firm's history and their publications on Stradivari and Guarneri are still industry ...