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Copenhagan School

Jesper Gotfredsen

Copenhagan, worked 1751–1769

Coarse work with poor materials. Small viol (private collection), labelled and dated 1752; large viola in the Galpin collection, cited by Henley, labelled and dated 1766; a pochette with ‘c’ shaped soundholes listed in the Hammerich Catalogue, labelled and dated 1768. Jesper Gotfredsen / Fiolin-mage\u{2026} — John Dilworth

Worked Copenhagan

Biographies

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John Dilworth+

GOTFREDSEN, Jesper Worked circa. 1751-1769 Copenhagen Denmark Stainer model. Coarse work with poor materials. Small viol (private collection), labelled and dated 1752; large viola in the Galpin collection, cited by Henley, labelled and dated 1766; a pochette with ‘c’ shaped soundholes listed in the Hammerich Catalogue, labelled and dated 1768. Jesper Gotfredsen / Fiolin-mager; Kiobenhavn, 1752 Jesper Gotfredesen / Fiolinmager i Kiobenhavn, 1766 Jesper Gotfredson Fiolinmager, kiobenhavn 1768

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+

Er bekam im Jahre 1751 seinen Gewerbeschein als Geigenmacher. Seine Geigen zeigen deutsche Modelle, in der Wahl des Holzes ist er nicht immer sorgfältig, dagegen ist seine Arbeit durchwegs gut. Das Instrumentenmuseum in Kopenhagen
besitzt eine schöne Taschengeige von ihm

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