. He practiced his craft from about 1729 until his death, and his work is divided into four main periods corresponding to and named after, Piacenza,
, the four cities in Italy where he lived and worked. The instruments of the latter period, Turin, are generally considered to be his best work, and tend toward higher valuations.
Guadagnini's father, Lorenzo, his son, Giuseppe, and some other members of the Guadagnini family continued in the line of violin making through several generations.
| Violinist |
Date & place of manufacture |
Instrument name |
Comments |
Reference |
| Riccardo Brengola Riccardo Brengola was an Italian violinist.Brengola was born in Naples. A child prodigy, he made his first studies with his father, and got his violin diploma in the Casablanca Conservatory at the early age of 11. returning to Italy, he studied violin with Arrigo Serato and orchestral conducting...
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1747, Piacenza |
"Contessa Crespi" |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=2796 |
| Goran Končar |
1753, Milan |
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http://croatiantimes.at/news/Panorama/2008-10-08/1415/ |
| Michał Kowalkowski |
1753 |
"Gucio" |
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| Adolf Brodsky |
1751, Milan |
ex-Brodsky |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=1029 |
| Amaury Coeytaux |
1773 |
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http://sites.radiofrance.fr/chaines/orchestres/journal/portrait/index.php?port=270000058 |
| Roman Simovic |
1752 |
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on loan from Jonathan Moulds |
http://www.romansimovic.com |
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1752 |
ex-Kneisel |
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Zakhar Bron Zakhar Bron is a Russian violinist of jewish descent and violin pedagogue. He is considered one of the best.His students have included Vadim Repin, Gwendolyn Masin, Daniel Hope, Maxim Vengerov, Denis Goldfeld, Daishin Kashimoto, Tamaki Kawakubo, Mayuko Kamio, Mayu Kishima, Sayaka Shoji and Nikolai...
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1757, Milan |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=1997 |
| Andrew Dawes Andrew Dawes is a Canadian violinist born February 7, 1940 in High River, Alberta.He was first violinist of the Orford String Quartet from 1965 until 1995 and plays a J.B.Guadagnini violin crafted in Parma in 1770...
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1770, Parma |
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http://www.dalphin-luthier.com/e/references_citations.php |
Julia FischerJulia Fischer is a German classical violinist and pianist.-Biography:Julia Fischer, born in Munich, Germany, is of German-Slovakian parentage. Her mother, Viera Fischer , came from the German minority in Slovakia and immigrated from Košice, Slovakia to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972...
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1750 |
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http://www.stringsmagazine.com/article/139/139,3628,Feature-3.asp |
| Felix Ayo Felix Ayo, , is an internationally renowned violinist, who is often a soloist, and is a performer of chamber music, a teacher and recording artist with a career that has spanned more than fifty years.-Early career:...
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1744 |
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http://www.felixayo.it/homepage.html |
| David Halen |
1753 |
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http://www2.mercer.edu/music/davidhalen.htm |
| Carl Flesch Carl Flesch was a violinist and teacher.Carl Flesch was born in Moson in Hungary in 1873. He began playing the violin at seven years of age. At 10, he was taken to Vienna, and began to study with Jakob Grün. At 17, he left for Paris, and joined the Paris Conservatoire...
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ex-Henri Vieuxtemps |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=1015 |
| David Garrett David Garrett is a record breaking German/American classical violinist and recording artist.-Personal life:...
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1772 |
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In December 2007, Garrett fell after a performance and smashed his Guadagnini, which he had purchased four years earlier for US$ The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....
1 million. |
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| David Greed |
1757 |
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Owned by the Yorkshire Guadagini 1757 Syndicate. |
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tykepenguin/sol/David.html |
| Arthur Grumiaux Arthur Grumiaux was a Belgian violinist who was also proficient in piano.-Youth:Grumiaux was born in Villers-Perwin, Belgium to a working-class family, and it was his grandfather who urged him to begin music studies at the age of only 4...
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ex-Grumiaux |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=2726 |
| Willy Hess Willy Hess was a German violin virtuoso and violin teacher.-Biography:Will Hess was born in Mannheim in 1859. He was a student of Joseph Joachim and he also studied with his father, who was a pupil of Louis Spohr....
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1740s |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=1006 |
Joseph JoachimJoseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant violinists of the 19th century.-Origins:...
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1767, Parma |
ex-Joachim |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=2736 |
| Ida Kavafian Ida Kavafian is a classical violinist and violist.Kavafian was born in Turkey to Armenian parents. She moved with her family to America in 1956, and began studying violin in Detroit at age six...
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1751 |
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http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/artistDetail/44/artistID=4 |
David Kim David Kim is a violinist born in Carbondale, Illinois and was the only American to win a prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1986, where he got sixth prize. Since 1999, he has been the concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
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1757 |
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on loan from The Philadelphia Orchestra The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900...
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http://www.davidkimviolin.com/biography.html |
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1752 |
ex-Kneisel |
|
| Mikhail Kopelman Mikhail Kopelman is a Ukrainian violinist.He was born in 1947 in the Transkarpathian city of Mikhail Kopelman is a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[violin]]ist.He was born in 1947 in the Transkarpathian city of...
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1773 |
|
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http://www.andersmanagement.com/ensembles/kopelman.php |
| Jan Kubelik Jan Kubelík was a Czech violinist and composer.-Biography:He was born in Michle . His father, a gardener by occupation, was an amateur violinist. He taught his two sons the violin and after discovering the talent of Jan, who was aged five at the time, arranged for him to study with Karel Weber and...
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1750 |
ex-Kubelik |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=1736 |
| Pekka Kuusisto Pekka Kuusisto is a Finnish classical and jazz violinist.Pekka Kuusisto began studying the violin at the age of three. His first violin teacher was Geza Szilvay at the East Helsinki Music Institute. In 1983 he enrolled in the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He began to study there with Tuomas...
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1752 |
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http://www.ondine.net/index.php?lid=en&cid=3.2&oid=517 |
| Tasmin Little Tasmin Little is an English violinist.She studied under Pauline Scott at the Yehudi Menuhin School and later at the Guildhall School of Music, coming to prominence as a string section finalist in the 1982 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition...
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1757 |
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http://www.musicomh.com/music/features/proms-violin_0706.htm |
| Haldon Martinson |
1750 |
|
Being used in the Boston Symphony OrchestraThe Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...
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http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/bios_detail.jsp?id=1700055 |
| Viktoria Mullova Viktoria Yurievna Mullova is a Russian violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles, and...
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1750 |
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http://www.viktoriamullova.com/biog.asp |
| Linda Rosenthal |
1772, Turin |
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http://www.linda-rosenthal.com/biography.php |
| Leon Sametini |
|
ex-Sametini |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=2409 |
| Yvonne Smeulers |
1785 |
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http://www.yvonnesmeulers.com |
| Lara St. John Lara St. John is a Canadian violinist known for her performances as soloist with orchestra and in recital.-Childhood:Lara St. John spent her early childhood in the City of London, Ontario...
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1779 |
Salabue |
called "the Resurrection" by St. John |
http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=617 |
| Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio is an American violinist. Currently assistant professor of violin and viola at the University of Nevada, Reno, she served as concertmaster of the San Antonio Symphony from 1994 until 2007, during which time she appeared annually as soloist with the orchestra...
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1757 |
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http://www.cpmf.us/pages/artisticdirector.htm |
| Lyndon Johnston Taylor |
1777 |
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http://www.nzso.co.nz/about_us/meet_the_nzso/the_orchestra/strings/first_violins#lyndon |
| Vanessa-Mae Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson , known professionally as Vanessa-Mae , is an internationally known British violinist. Her music style is self-described as "violin techno-acoustic fusion", as several of her albums prominently feature the techno style...
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1761 |
"Gizmo" |
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http://vanessa-mae.com |
| Henri Vieuxtemps Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th century....
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ex-Henri Vieuxtemps |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=1015 |
| Henryk Wieniawski Henryk Wieniawski was a Polish violinist and composer.-Biography:Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lublin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. His father, Tobiasz Pietruszka, had converted to Catholicism. His talent for playing the violin was recognized early, and in 1843 he entered the Paris...
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1750 |
ex-Wieniawski |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=1017 |
Eugène YsaÿeEugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...
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1754 |
ex-Eugène Ysaÿe |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=2430 |
| Sini-Maaria Simonen |
1760 |
|
on loan from the Finnish Cultural Foundation |
http://www.skr.fi/default.asp?docId=13213 |
| Jack Liebeck Jack Liebeck is a British violinist. In 2010, he won a Classical Brit in the young British classical performer category.-Film Scores:...
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1785 |
ex-Wilhelmj |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=2750 |