Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 38 of
38
with 100 items per page.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue abstract "Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue (1755–1840) was an Italian count known as the first great connoisseur and collector of violins. A trove of correspondence and memoirs on the history of violinmaking known as the Carteggio forms the basis of his biography. Cozio's meticulous notes on nearly every instrument that passed through his hands contributed enormously to the body of knowledge surrounding Italian violinmaking.Cozio was born in the Piedmontese town of Casale Monferrato to an aristocratic and intellectual family. The count's father Carlo Cozio owned an Amati violin, which may have piqued Cozio's fascination with violinmaking.In 1771, Cozio attended the military academy in Turin, where he became acquainted with Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, the famous violin maker. Guadagnini became a principal figure in Cozio's education about the history of violinmaking and his acquisition of instruments. Because of his aristocratic status, Count Cozio was formally prohibited from engaging in direct buying and selling of instruments, so much of his business correspondence was carried out through intermediaries. Letters sent via Cozio's primary agent Guido Anselmi indicate that in 1774 Cozio and Guadagnini entered into a contractual agreement for the production of new violins. Over the next three years, Guadagnini built over 50 instruments for Cozio which represent a salient portion of his output. Cozio sold some of these instruments, many through the Turin shop of Boch and Gravier, but was never able to find a suitable market for Guadagnini's output in his lifetime. Around 1776 their relationship began to deteriorate, perhaps because of delays in payment to Guadagnini and mutual dissatisfaction with the terms of the contract. In spite of the rancor that ended the contract in 1777, Cozio acted as Guadagnini's primary patron, and facilitated Guadagnini's prominent legacy in the canon of Italian violinmaking.Following the deterioration of his relationship with Guadagnini, the primary figures in the expansion of Cozio's expertise and treasury of violins were the Mantegazza brothers, Domenico and Pietro Giovanni. Like his patronage of G.B. Guadagnini, Cozio's relationship with the Mantegazzas was a symbiotic one. They provided him with insight on craftsmanship and access to the marketplace, and he supplied them with commissions and most of his repair work. Carlo Mantegazza, son of Pietro, is frequently mentioned in the Carteggio as an unsurpassed restorer and modernizer of Cozio's historic instruments, including the unfinished stock of G.B. Guadagnini.Finally, the prominent violin collector Luigi Tarisio occupies a central role in the history of Cozio's famous collection of instruments. In the year preceding Cozio's death in 1840 the two men undertook negotiations for the sale to Tarisio of numerous violins by Stradivari and Guadagnini. The transaction was completed by Cozio's daughter the Countess Matilda following her father's death, and the collection was dispersed.".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue birthDate "1755".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue birthYear "1755".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue deathDate "1840".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue deathYear "1840".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue wikiPageID "36206942".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue wikiPageRevisionID "599776289".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue dateOfBirth "1755".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue dateOfDeath "1840".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue hasPhotoCollection Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue name "Cozio di Salabue, Ignazio Alessandro".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue subject Category:1755_births.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue subject Category:1840_deaths.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue subject Category:Counts_of_Italy.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue type Agent.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue type Person.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue type Person.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue type Q215627.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue type Q5.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue type Agent.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue type NaturalPerson.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue type Thing.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue type Person.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue comment "Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue (1755–1840) was an Italian count known as the first great connoisseur and collector of violins. A trove of correspondence and memoirs on the history of violinmaking known as the Carteggio forms the basis of his biography.".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue label "Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue label "Ignazio Alessandro Cozio de Salabue".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue label "Ignazio Alessandro Cozio".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue sameAs Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue sameAs Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_de_Salabue.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue sameAs m.0k2jvb9.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue sameAs Q5176665.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue sameAs Q5176665.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue wasDerivedFrom Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue?oldid=599776289.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue givenName "Ignazio Alessandro".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue isPrimaryTopicOf Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue.
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue name "Cozio di Salabue, Ignazio Alessandro".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue name "Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue".
- Count_Ignazio_Alessandro_Cozio_di_Salabue surname "Cozio di Salabue".