Author: William Henry HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Violin
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Antonio Stradivari
Author: William Henry HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Violin
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Stradivari
Author: Stewart PollensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521873045
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A highly illustrated biography and study of Stradivari, the greatest violin maker, including colour photographs of his most famous instruments.
Stradivari's Genius
Author: Toby FaberPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588362140
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
“’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.
The Secrets of Stradivari
Author: Simone F. SacconiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bowed stringed instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Antonio Stradivari
Author: Horace PetherickPublisher: London : "The Strad" Office/E. Donajowski
ISBN:
Category : Violin
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Author: Sir George GrovePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Cremona Violins
Author: Kameshwar C. WaliPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812791116
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This title contains a brief account of the history of the Cremona violins - the rise and fall of the art that dominated over two centuries - and is primarily devoted to the physics behind the violin acoustics, specifically the research of William F. 'Jack' Fry over the past four decades and more.
The Violin
Author: George HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
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Author: George Grove