Roma & I Suoi Leutari by Claude Lebet

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From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, hundreds of German luthiers from the mountains of Bavaria flooded into various Italian cities, attracted by greater possibilities for work. A large number found their way to Rome where they integrated with their Italian colleagues and contributed to the birth of an unmistakeable Roman style.

Starting with the Alberti family from the end of the sixteenth century, and ending with Luigi Amici at the beginning of the nineteenth, the most important master luthiers are given a detailed biographical profile, their work illustrated with historical-stylistic observations and precise analyses of single instruments; illustrated by Eveline Perroud’s superb photographs. Claude Lebet’s masterpiece is completed by a study of the precise locations of the single workshops where the violin-makers plied their trade, and the family trees that link generations of artisans between master and pupil, concluding with a complete list of the artisans that is has been possible to find.

Bound volume, 446 pages with over 130 full-colour illustrations. The volume comes with a CD of music by Locatelli, Geminiani, Montanari, etc. performed by the Ensemble Musica Antiqua Roma Ensemble.