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Switzerland School

Bendetto Gualzatta

worked 1679–1725

GUALZATTA, Benedetto b. Switzerland, Worked circa. 1679-1725 Rome Italy. Several plucked instruments extant including a mandolin in the Musical Instrument Museum in Rome dated 1679, a Portuguese guitar in the Metropolitan Museum, New York from 1716, and a pandorina in the Schweiz Landesmuseum, Zuric\u{2026} — John Dilworth

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John Dilworth+

GUALZATTA, Benedetto b. Switzerland, Worked circa. 1679-1725 Rome Italy. Several plucked instruments extant including a mandolin in the Musical Instrument Museum in Rome dated 1679, a Portuguese guitar in the Metropolitan Museum, New York from 1716, and a pandorina in the Schweiz Landesmuseum, Zurich from 1725. No bowed instruments recorded. Benedito Qualzatta / Roma 1716 Benedetto Qualzatta / Roma 1725 [Lebet]

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+

Ein Lautenmacher, der nicht ungeschickt war. Ein aus einem reichverzierten
Kürbis gemachtes Lauteninstrument (»Cavaco«) von ihm besitzt die Sammlung
Crosby Brown in New-York (No. 144).

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