Gennaro (Januario) Gagliano

Instrument: violin

Classification: 3 Chordophones / 32 Composite chordophones / 321 Lutes / 321.3 Handle lutes / 321.32 Necked lutes / 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars / 321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitarswith a bow

Violin maker: Gennaro (Januario) Gagliano

Date: 1748

Town: Naples

Country: Italy

Owner: Järnåker Foundation, Stockholm

Description: back of two-piece maple, sides and scroll of maple, front of two-piece spruce

Inscriptions: printed label reading: Januarius Gagliano Filius / Alexandri Fecit Neap. 17(48)

Measurements: body length 352 mm 

Materials: spruce, sycamore

Violinists: Gunilla Elisabet „Nilla” Pierrou, Sweden (First Prize at the 1969 Nordic Competition for Strings in Aarhus, Denmark); Anna A. Wódka (Fifth Prize at the 1977 Internationa H. Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań)

Anna A. Wódka, 1977; N. Paganini, Caprice No. 5, Op. 1, Anthology © Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society of Poznań

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