His treatise Passaggi per potersi esercitare nel diminuire ("Passages for practice in diminution"), Venice 1592,[1] is the first to mention the violino da brazzo, or violin.
[citation needed] Some of his excellent violin pupils include his sons Francesco and Giovanni Domenico.
The noble title Taegio or Taeggio was conferred on the Rognoni family by king Sigismund III of Poland, and appears on the title-pages of works of Rognoni's sons from 1605.
Paolo Morigia reported that he was "much praised for his playing of the viol and judged among the finest of the City",[3] while Filippo Picinelli in 1670 described him as an "excellent player of the violin and other string and wind instruments, who became the Orpheus of his day.
"[4] His Passaggi and only one instrumental work survived: a piece in an anthology printed by Gastoldi: Il primo libro della musica a due voci, Milan, 1598.