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Giovanni Battista Ceruti (1756-1817) worked as a weaver early in his life. In 1786, he left his hometown for Cremona, where he resided for almost ten years before starting the violin-making business.Giovanni might have received training from the Bergonzi brothers, as the violins made between 1795 and 1798 resemble the style of the Bergonzi brothers. Furthermore, Giovanni’s influence by Guarneri del Gesù was shown through the shape of the scroll that displays his attribute.
Giovanni’s son Giuseppe Ceruti (1785-1860) later joined his father’s violin-making business. In 1814, they moved to the Contrada Coltellai region, where many contemporary Cremonese luthiers were gathered, next door to Nicola Bergonzi. During the 1780s, the violin-making competition between Nicola Bergonzi and Lorenzo Storioni in this region was once highly exalted.
Giovanni is a great contributor to lutherie in that he extended the classical Cremonese violin-making tradition from the 18th century to the 19th century, and revived its reputation. Unfortunately, an outbreak of typhus in Cremona in 1817 took his life. The Ceruti family, which had passed down the violin-making business for three generations, became the representative of the Cremonese School in the 19th century.
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