Ansaldo Poggi

His father, also an artisan, musician and amateur violinmaker, encouraged his son, steering him toward the arts.

After the end of World War I he dedicated himself to the profession, taking up the craft again alongside his father while at the same time graduating from the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna.

With the passing of the years Poggi became stylistically independent of Fiorini, and was soon producing instruments of a shape and reflecting a taste all his own.

Gian Carlo Guicciardi, Giampaolo Savini and Neldo Ferrari have to be considered his students.

During his lifetime, he made instruments for important musicians such as Mistislav Rostropovich, David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Aaron Rosand, and Uto Ughi, to name just a few.