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(SMIT, SMITH) Domenico Schmitt

b. c.1605

after 1640 Mantua Italy. Pupil and assistant of A. Alberti in Rome from 1624. Appointed luthier to the Gonzaga court in Mantua 1640-1649. Work unknown. [Lebet] — John Dilworth

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Biographies

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John Dilworth+

SCHMITT (SMIT, SMITH), Domenico Born circa. 1605 Bavaria Germany, d. after 1640 Mantua Italy. Pupil and assistant of A. Alberti in Rome from 1624. Appointed luthier to the Gonzaga court in Mantua 1640-1649. Work unknown. [Lebet]

Karel Jalovec+

Rome, lute and violin maker who came ca 1640, already apprenticed, from Bavaria.

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