Author: Carlo Chiesa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Violin makers
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Stewart Pollens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521873045
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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A highly illustrated biography and study of Stradivari, the greatest violin maker, including colour photographs of his most famous instruments.

Author: Charles Beare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951939703
Category : Bowed stringed instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Toby Faber
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588362140
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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“’Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari’s violins without Antonio.” –George Eliot Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive. In this fascinating book, Toby Faber traces the rich, multilayered stories of six of these peerless instruments–five violins and a cello–and the one towering artist who brought them into being. Blending history, biography, meticulous detective work, and an abiding passion for music, Faber embarks on an absorbing journey as he follows some of the most prized instruments of all time. Mysteries and unanswered questions proliferate from the outset–starting with the enigma of Antonio Stradivari himself. What made this apparently unsophisticated craftsman so special? Why were his techniques not maintained by his successors? How is it that even two and a half centuries after his death, no one has succeeded in matching the purity, depth, and delicacy of a Stradivarius? In Faber’s illuminating narrative, each of the six fabled instruments becomes a character in its own right–a living entity cherished by artists, bought and sold by princes and plutocrats, coveted, collected, hidden, lost, copied, and occasionally played by a musician whose skill matches its maker’s. Here is the fabulous Viotti, named for the virtuoso who enchanted all Paris in the 1780s, only to fall foul of the French Revolution. Paganini supposedly made a pact with the devil to transform the art of the violin–and by the end of his life he owned eleven Strads. Then there’s the Davidov cello, fashioned in 1712 and lovingly handed down through a succession of celebrated artists until, in the 1980s, it passed into the capable hands of Yo-Yo Ma. From the salons of Vienna to the concert halls of New York, from the breakthroughs of Beethoven’s last quartets to the first phonographic recordings, Faber unfolds a narrative magnificent in its range and brilliant in its detail. “A great violin is alive,” said Yehudi Menuhin of his own Stradivarius. In the pages of this book, Faber invites us to share the life, the passion, the intrigue, and the incomparable beauty of the world’s most marvelous stringed instruments.

Author: Horace Petherick
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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Antonio Stradivari was a 17th-century legendary Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas, and harps. This book tells about his birth and early years, education with Amati, first steps in carving, developing new patterns, first success, and the "Golden Period," old age, death, and burial.

Author: David Schoenbaum
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039308440X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 753

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Traces the history of the instrument, from its first appearance in the mid-sixteenth century to its modern use by artists, writers, and Hollywood and discusses how the affordable, portable instrument can be used to play Beethoven, jazz, and indie rock.

Author: Josef Focht
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783873500570
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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Author: Lisa Brooks Robinson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574671469
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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(Amadeus). Created on the occasion of the Juilliard School's 100th anniversary in 2005, this book offers an unprecedented look at Juilliard's historic stringed instrument collection. The collection, assembled over the course of the last century through generous gifts of instruments and funds to the school, is vividly represented by photographic and narrative accounts of 25 instruments (and three bows) of particular historic interest by such illustrious makers as Amati, Bergonzi, Guadagnini, Guarneri, Stradivari, and others, as well as reproductions of historic documents and an annotated list of other instruments and bows. Among the featured instruments are a Stradivarius violin that once belonged to a Russian czar and was later owned by Avery Fisher, a Guarneri del Gesu violin played by a member of the Viennese quartet that premiered many of Beethoven's and Schubert's works in that genre, and a Stradivarius cello previously owned by Hugo Becker, head of the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik. Short essays sketch the history of Juilliard and its illustrious string department, and describe the crucial role of the Instrumental Loan Program, which allows students to borrow instruments for special performances and competitions as well as for longer-term use. The book includes a foreword by renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman, a Juilliard alumnus and holder of the school's Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair since 1999.

Author: Ernest Nicholas Doring
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bowed stringed instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: Kathleen Ruth Wiens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985327422
Category : Stradivari stringed instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 47

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