Ferruccio Varagnolo

Violin maker
(1880 – 1916)

Ferruccio Varagnolo (1880–1916) worked as one of the skilled but lesser-known craftsmen in Leandro Bisiach's Milan workshop during the first decade of the twentieth century, alongside contemporaries such as Luigi Montanari. He died young, at only thirty-six, and his own instruments — a 1911 violin is among the small surviving ...Read More record of his independent work — are correspondingly scarce. His name outlived him in an unusual way: decades later, through the 1950s and 60s, Celestino Farotto collaborated with Bisiach's sons Giacomo and Leandrino on a series of well-made violas marketed under the Varagnolo name for the American export market, a tribute of sorts to a workman who had died before any of that later generation began building. Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $56,530 in Jun 2023, for a violin.
- 13 auction price results.

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