In the 16th and 17th centuries, Roman production in the lutherie sector focused almost exclusively on plucked-string instruments: in the numerous workshop inventories that have come down to us, the various members of the viola family are very rare indeed, while violins are almost entirely absent. Again in Rome, the profession of violin-maker (‘violinaro’) starts to appear only in the second quarter of the 18th century; unlike the situation with the luthiers of the two previous centuries, only one workshop inventory has previously been described from this type of maker: that of the ‘violinaro’ Crescenzio Ugar (1791), which unfortunately provides very little information about the maker’s effective production. This article aims to help to fill the gap, which is all the more serious since it concerns a class of instruments that (unlike those of the plucked-string type) was the most valued from the 18th century onwards—not only from a musical point of view, but also from a purely economic perspective. I refer in particular to three previously unpublished inventories of the stock of well-known violinari operating in Rome: Francesco Emiliani (1736), Giulio Cesare Gigli (1794) and Giovanni Maria Valenzano (1826). To these we may add Magno Longo (1704), one of just two guitar-makers (‘chitarrari’) of German origin, from whose workshop we also find documentation concerning the production of violins. I also present a review of the instruments played by several Roman violinists during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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1700-1830 年罗马的小提琴制作：新的档案调查

在 16 和 17 世纪，罗马制琴业的生产几乎完全集中在弹拨乐器上：在我们留下的众多作坊库存中，中提琴家族的各个成员确实非常罕见，而小提琴几乎完全不存在。再次在罗马，小提琴制造商（'violinaro'）的职业仅在 18 世纪下半叶才开始出现。与前两个世纪的制琴师的情况不同，这种类型的制造商之前只描述了一个车间库存：'violinaro' Crescenzio Ugar（1791）的库存，不幸的是，它提供的关于制造商有效生产的信息很少。本文旨在帮助填补空白，这更加严重，因为它涉及一类乐器（与弹拨乐器不同）从 18 世纪以来最受重视——不仅从音乐的角度来看，而且从纯粹的经济角度来看. 我特别提到了三个以前未公布的罗马著名小提琴库存清单：Francesco Emiliani (1736)、Giulio Cesare Gigli (1794) 和 Giovanni Maria Valenzano (1826)。除了这些，我们还可以添加 Magno Longo（1704 年），他是仅有的两个德国血统的吉他制造商（“chitarrari”）之一，我们还从他的工作室中找到了有关小提琴生产的文件。我还回顾了 18 和 19 世纪几位罗马小提琴家演奏的乐器。