LIUTERIA SIRLETO Naples in the History of Music page 2

The glorious story of the Neapolitan theaters continued as composers like Paisiello, Rossini and Donizetti rose to achieve international fame. If players and composers flocked into the city, Alessandro Gagliano set the standard in Neapolitan lute-making and became its tradition’s patriarch. Violin making in Italy had been the last to arise as the off-spring of the viola and although there was a very fine tradition in Brescia and Cremona, Neapolitan lute makers looked to Gagliano for excellence.
This tradition, unlike elsewhere, has continued uninterruptedly to our days as lute makers like Calace, Pistucci, Altavilla, Postiglione and Bellarosa styled after Gagliano while adding some aesthetic changes either in the instrument’s shape or varnish
Among today’s lute-makers in Naples, the Sirleto Brothers continue in this fine tradition while making appropriate changes to each string instrument as it requires. For the violins styled after Gagliano, Postiglione and Bellarosa, the Sirleto still adopt the original patterns and directives left by those masters.
From the planning stage to the last varnish layer, each time, the Sirleto Brothers look to create a string instrument that in the player’s hands will give the sweetest and most tender, almost human like, sound. Thus far their efforts have been rewarded by the consensus received from well renowned national and international musicians.

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