Morglato Morella

John Dilworth

MORELLA, Morglato Worked circa. 1545-1602 Mantua & Venice Italy. Cited in most dictionaries, with speculation that he was the pupil of the lute maker Pietro Dardelli. Two labels are quoted from violins or fragments in the Brussels Musical Instruments Museum (ex Snoeck) with Mantua as origin, and from P. De Wit giving Venice, but both are dubious. Henley gives a detailed but unreliable description of red- brown varnish, sometimes double-purfled and inlaid with carved anthropomorphic heads. Morglato Morella / Mantuae 15.. Morglato Morella / fece in Venecia 1594

George Hart

M. Fetis, in his ” Biographie Universelle des Musiciens,” states that he was famous for his Viols and Lutes. S. Ang. Maffei, in his “Annali di Mantova” (fol. 147), highly praises the instruments made by Morella.

Cecie Stainer

A maker of lutes, rebecs, and viols about 1510-50, who worked first in Mantua, then in Venice. Very few of his instruments remain intact, as his viols were often utilised for making up altos or violoncellos of small size.

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

Vielleicht ein Schüler P. Dardelli’s. Seine Violen waren berühmt, und die wenigen von ihm erhaltenen Arbeiten rechtfertigen diesen Ruhm vollkommen. Um 1540 war er noch in Mantua (vgl. Bertolotti S. 35), 1550 aber in Venedig. Eine wahrscheinlich umgearbeitete Geige von ihm aus der Sammlung Snoeck (No. 507) hat doppelte Einlage, am Wirbelkasten ein Schalknarrenköpfchen und rothbraunen Lack. Die jetzt öfter im Handel vorkommenden Arbeiten von ihm sind wohl ausnahmslos Fälschungen.

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John Dilworth

George Hart

Cecie Stainer

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

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