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Pietro Balestrieri

Cremona, worked 1725–1749

Cited in most dictionaries, but no evidence of his existence yet found. Petrus Balestrieri alumnus Antonii / Stradivarii fecit Cremonae, anno 17.. — John Dilworth

Worked Cremona

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Biographies

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John Dilworth+

BALESTRIERI, Pietro Worked 1725-1749 Cremona Italy. Cited in most dictionaries, but no evidence of his existence yet found. Petrus Balestrieri alumnus Antonii / Stradivarii fecit Cremonae, anno 17..

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+

Er nennt sich einen Schüler Stradivari’s und war ein Bruder von Tommaso
B., dem er jedoch in keiner Beziehung gleichsteht, trotzdem kommt gerade sein
Name in freilich oft sehr verstümmelter Schreibweise in unechten Instrumenten vor.

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