 After the closure of the school Gaetano lived in Parma for long periods, from 1942 to 1948 and again from 1957 until his death in 1959.His son Pietro, who was also a musician, lived and worked at length in Parma before being called to teach in the school of Cremona.For almost half a century, this experience of the first public School of violin-making seemed to have died out forever.