Renato Scrollavezza (April,14 1927 – October, 14 2019) was an Italian luthier.[1] He is considered influential in post-war italian violin making. His daughter, Elisa Scrollavezza, is continuing today the family activity in Parma alongside her husband, Andrea Zanrè.
Biography
editScrollavezza was born in Castelnuovo Fogliani, Italy on April 14, 1927 to farmer parents. Scrollavezza grew up in Noceto, but during the Second World War his family faced both poverty and famine. He recounted stories of hiding in ditches from planes and escaping bombing. By the age of 18, he had weighed 50 kilos and lost all his teeth.[2][3]
He started his career has an apprentice to a furniture maker but started to make his own instruments by the age of 17. He continued to produce his own instruments self-taught until 1950 where he was accepted at the Cremona Violin Making School and later graduated under the tuletage of Peter Tatar in 1954. Scrollavezza then went on to win second place in Cremona's National Violin Making Competition.[1][2]
In 1975, Giorgio Paini, the president of the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito, invited Scrollavezza to reopen the Parma School of Violin Making apart of the music conservatory.[3] Scrollevazza taught from 1975 to 2014, with notable students like Jason Price, Andrea Zanrè, and, his daughter, Elisa Scrollavezza.[2] In the 1980s, Scrollavezza stopped producing instruments, focusing then on teaching and research.[1]
In 1988, Scrollavezza was selected by the city of Genoa to be the curator of Niccolo Paganini's Il Cannone Guarneri.[1]
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d "Influential Italian luthier Renato Scrollavezza has died". The Strad. October 15, 2019. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
- ^ a b c "Renato Scrollavezza tribute by his former student Jason Price". Tarisio. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
- ^ a b "Renato Scrollavezza interview, by Paul Sadka". Tarisio. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
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