Eugenio Galeazzi was an interesting exception in the panorama of Italian lutherie of the early nineteenth century, usually populated by craftsmen of humble origins and a limited education. Eugenio's father instead, the famous Turin violinist and teacher Francesco Galeazzi, gave his son a very accurate education both as a musician and intellectual: author of a violin method still now appreciated for the study of ancient practices, Francesco left as a dowry to his son also his passion for treatises, if it is true that the latter wrote a now lost violin making manual.
Born in 1785 and raised in the territory of Ascoli, the violin maker Eugenio had perhaps little opportunities to follow a formal apprenticeship or to closely imitate examples of classical violin making. His work is therefore typical of the Marche school, very warm and spontaneous but which certainly cannot be defined as classical. The body model is well balanced, with short, round C-bouts and a rather well executed purfling. The F-holes and the head are very peculiar: the former have extremely minute upper eyes and very wide lower ones; the volute, and especially the eye, are very small and hollowed, and the peg box is formed by two almost parallel lines and with no shaping of the throat.
