Gasparo da Salò (family name, Bertolotti)

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Gasparo da Salò (family name, Bertolotti)

Gasparo da Salò (family name, Bertolotti), Italian instrument maker; b. Polpenazzi (baptized in Salo, May 20), 1540; d. Brescia (buried), April 14, 1609. He went to Brescia in 1562, and settled there as a maker of viols, viole da gamba, and contrabass viols, which gained much celebrity; his violins were less valued. His pupils were his eldest son, Francesco, Giovanni Paolo Maggini, and Giacomo Lafranchini. Dragonetti’s favorite double bass was an altered ’Viola contrabassa” of Gaspare’s.

Bibliography

V. Rho-Guerriero, G. d.S. (Rome, 1892); M. Butturini, G. d.S.: Studio critico (Salo, 1901); A. Mucchi, G. d.S. (Milan, 1940).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire