Biography
Gio Battista Morassi was born in 1934 outside Udine and after showing early promise entered the International School of Violin Making in Cremona. He attended the school from 1951 to 1955 under the tutelage of Giuseppe Ornati and Ferdinando Garimberti , ...Read More and after his military service returned to take up a career educating some of the best twentieth century makers from Italy and abroad. Morassi replaced his former teacher Peter Tatar before becoming Maestro Liutao in 1971. He retired from the school in 1983, and passed away in 2018. Morassi's research and experimentation with materials and construction led to an admirable production of tonally excellent instruments built on classical Cremonese models and his own. Read Less
Auction results
| Type | City | Sale date | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violin | Cremona | Jun 5, 2026 | $32,450 |
| Viola | Cremona | Mar 6, 2026 | $36,000 |
| Violin | Cremona | Mar 30, 2026 | $25,402 |
| Violin | Cremona | May 30, 2025 | $45,000 |
| Viola | Cremona | Mar 14, 2025 | $29,500 |
| Viola | Cremona | Nov 15, 2024 | $35,400 |
| Violin | Cremona | Oct 8, 2024 | $61,554 |
| Cello | Cremona | Oct 29, 2024 | $84,225 |
| Viola | Cremona | Oct 29, 2024 | $30,627 |
| Violin | Cremona | Nov 17, 2023 | $48,000 |
| Violin | Cremona | Oct 24, 2023 | $41,385 |
| Violin | Cremona | Jun 9, 2023 | $45,000 |
| Violin | Cremona | Mar 17, 2023 | $4,800 |
| Viola | Cremona | Nov 19, 2021 | $45,000 |
| Violin | Cremona | Jun 8, 2021 | $52,542 |
| Violin | Cremona | Jun 8, 2021 | $50,847 |
| Violin | Cremona | Feb 28, 2020 | $45,000 |
| Violin | Cremona | Nov 8, 2019 | $33,000 |
| Violin | Cremona | Nov 8, 2018 | $36,000 |
| Violin | Cremona | Nov 9, 2017 | $33,000 |
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