Matteo Goffriller
Violin maker
(c. 1659 – 1742)
Considered to be the father of the Venetian school, Matteo Goffriller was born in the Alpine town of Bressanone close to Bolzano, where he may have been a student of Matthias Albani. After moving to Venice in 1685 to apprentice with Mathias Kaiser, he married Kaiser's daughter and by 1690 had inherited his teacher and father-in-law's business. Thereafter Goffriller enjoyed unrivaled dominance in the Venetian violin making trade, and had a marked influence on all of the prominent early 18th-century Venetian makers, including Domenico Montagnana, Santo Serafin, Carlo Tononi, Francesco Gobetti, and the younger Pietro Guarneri. The deep red varnish typical of Goffriller's work later became a salient attribute of the Venetian style. His cellos are his most favored works today, and are superior to all but those of Stradivari and Montagnana.
Price History
- The auction record for this maker is $620,800 in Apr 2005, for a cello.
- 66 auction price results.
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Goffriller family tree
Instruments
Violin -
1692
Venice
Violin -
1692
Venice
Violin -
1692
Venice
Violin -
1693
Venice
Violin -
c. 1695
Venice
Violin -
1695
Venice
Violin -
1696
Venice
Violin -
1698
Venice
Violin -
1698
Venice
Violin -
c. 1700
Venice
Violin -
1700
Venice
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1700
Venice
Violin -
1700
Venice
the 'Sivori, Lalo'
Violin -
1700
Venice
Violin -
1700
Venice
the 'Marconi'
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1700
Venice
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1700
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1700
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1700
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1700
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1700
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1700
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1700
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1700
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1700
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c. 1700
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c. 1700
Venice
Violin -
1702
Venice
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1706
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1706
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1706
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1708
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1709
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1709
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1710
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Violin -
1710
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1710
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Violin -
1710
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Violin -
1710
Venice
Violin -
c. 1710
Venice
Violin -
1720
Venice
Violin -
1721
Venice
Violin -
1721
Venice
Violin -
1723
Venice
the 'Schley'
Violin -
1724
Venice
Violin -
1725
Venice
Violin -
1727
Venice
Violin -
1727
Venice
Violin -
1729
Venice
Violin -
1730
Venice
the 'Baillot'
Violin -
1732
Venice
Violin -
1737
Venice
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Venice
Viola -
1690
Venice
Viola -
1699
Venice
Viola -
1700
Venice
the 'Colonel Miklashersky, Lillian Fuchs'
Viola -
1705
Venice
Viola -
1708
Venice
Viola -
1710
Venice
the 'Funkhauser'
Viola -
1723
Venice
the 'Rothschild'
Viola -
1727
Venice
the 'Trampler'
Viola -
1737
Venice
Cello -
1690
Venice
Cello -
1690
Venice
Cello -
1690
Venice
Cello -
1690
Venice
Cello -
1693
Venice
the 'Mischa Schneider'
Cello -
1698
Venice
Cello -
1698
Venice
the 'Rosette'
Cello -
1698
Venice
Cello -
1698
Venice
Cello -
1700
Venice
the 'Piatti, Salmond, Paganini'
Cello -
1700
Venice
Cello -
1700
Venice
Cello -
1700
Venice
the 'Barbirolli'
Cello -
1700
Venice
Cello -
1700
Venice
the 'd'Archambeau'
Cello -
1700
Venice
the 'Parker'
Cello -
1700
Venice
the 'Curtis Collection'
Cello -
1700
Venice
Cello -
c. 1700-1710
Venice
Cello -
c. 1701
Venice
Cello -
1703
Venice
the 'Garbousova'
Cello -
1705
Venice
the 'Starker, Spencer, James'
Cello -
1705
Venice
Cello -
1706
Venice
the 'Warburg'
Cello -
1710
Venice
Cello -
1710
Venice
the 'Müller'
Cello -
1710
Venice
Cello -
1717
Venice
Cello -
1720
Venice
Cello -
1722
Venice
Cello -
1723
Venice
the 'Lutyens'
Cello -
1727
Venice
the 'Földesy'
Cello -
1729
Venice
the 'Menter'
Cello -
c. 1730
Venice
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No Date
Venice
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Venice
the 'Bedetti'
Cello -
No Date
Venice
