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Mandolins Calace

 

Raffaele Calace (1863 - 1934) was an Italian mandolin player, composer, and luthier.

Calace was born in Naples, Italy, the son of Antonio Calace, a successful instrument maker.

He initially trained to be a musician, discovered the mandolin, and soon became a virtuoso.

After Calace graduated with high honers from the Regio Conservatorio di Musica in Naples, he set out to elevate the mandolin's place in music. To achieve this, he toured Europe and Japan, giving concerts on the Neapolitan mandolin and liuto cantabile.

The liuto cantabile is a bass variant of the mandolin family that scholars believe Neapolitan luthiers of the Vinaccia family created in the last decade of the 19th century, and that Raffaele Calace subsequently perfected.

Raffaele Calace made three long-playing phonograph records on which he plays mandolin and liuto cantabile.Raffaele Calace wrote about 200 compositions for mandolin.

These include concert works for mandolin solo and compositions for mandolin and other instruments-duets with piano, trio combinations with mandola and guitar, the Romantic Mandolin Quartet (two mandolins, mandola, and guitar), and quintets.Raffaele Calace and his brother Nicola Calace (1859-1923), also a musician, also became instrument makers in the Neapolitan mandolin family.

They introduced improvements in building techniques and modernized the Neapolitan mandolin. Among other innovations, they enlarged its sound box and-like the Roman luthier Luigi Embergher extended the fingerboard over the sound hole to increase the range.

When Nicola Calace emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1898, Raffaele continued the Calace workshop with his daughter Maria (also a mandolin player), and his son Giuseppe Calace. Today the Calace atelier is run by Calace's grandson Raffaele Jr.

 

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Mandolin calace 1982 Type 16 No 1

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Mandolin Raffaele Calace 1908

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Mandolin Raffaele Calace 1918

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Mandolin Raffaele Calace 1906

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Mandolin Raffaele Calace 1907

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