Gioffredo Benedetto RINALDI

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	35.3 cm Early 20th C. [Attributed to]	Tue 1st March 2011	£12,000
Violin	1885	Fri 1st March 1996	£14,950
Violin	1880	Thu 1st June 1995	£5,290
Violin	1883	Wed 1st June 1988	£6,050
Violin	1873	Mon 1st April 1985	£3,740

John Dilworth

GIOFFREDO (RINALDI), Benedetto Born 1822 Alba, died 1888 Turin Italy. Initially a dealer and trader of musical instruments, established in Turin with his father-in-law, Teobaldo Rinaldi. Worked for Bianchi in Paris c.1859-1868, thereafter working in Turin as a violin maker under the name Gioffredo-Rinaldi. Biographer of Pressenda. His pamphlet Classica Fabbricazone di Violini in Piemont (Turin, 1873) provides the basis for most research into Pressenda’s life. His own work is rarely encountered, but is very much in the Pressenda style. His shop included at various times E. Marchetti, C. Oddone, and R. Marengo, who succeeded to the shop which then became ‘Marengo-Rinaldi’. All contributed to the variety of work, generally with thin orange to dark red varnish, some signed internally: ‘Gioffredo Brenadetto detto Rinaldi Torino, 18..’ [Blot IV]

Cecie Stainer

Was a pupil and fellow-worker of Pressenda. He was still working in Turin in 1886, but died about five years later. He published: ” Classica fabbricazione di violini in Piemonte” (Turin, 1873), which is practically a short biography of Pressenda.

George Hart

Chiefly known as a dealer in Violins. He exhibited a few Violins by Giovanni F. Pressenda at the Vienna Exhibition, 1873, and published a short notice of that maker, which he inscribed to the Archduke Rannieri.

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

Lieblingsschüler von Pressenda; ein geschickter Geigenmacher, dessen Violoncelli sehr geschätzt sind. Auch als Kenner alter Geigen und Händler war er bekannt. Er stand in Verbindung mit Tarisio und war nach dessen Tod einer der geschicktesten Entdecker alter Instrumente in Italien. Er gab in Turin 1873 eine Schrift heraus unter dem Titel: Classica fabbricazione di violini in Piemonte, in der das Ausführlichste über Pressenda berichtet wird.

Karel Jalovec

Pupil of Pressenda. Worked well on the model of his teacher, though he finished the edges of his instruments less delicately than his master. His violins are good orchestral instruments; better are his ‘celli. He was good hand at repairing. Price 12.000 Kc.

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£14,950

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John Dilworth

Cecie Stainer

George Hart

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

Karel Jalovec

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