Download or read book The Violin makers of the Guarneri Family 1626 1762 written by William Henry Hill and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family history of the legendary violinmakers of Mantua, Cremona and Venice, and the definitive commentary on their craftsmanship. Includes 131 photographs, 16 in full color.
Download or read book The Violin makers of the Guarneri Family 1626 1762 written by William Henry Hill and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Violin makers of the Guarneri Family 1626 1762 written by William Henry Hill and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Violin makers of the Guarneri Family 1626 1762 written by William Henry Hill and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antonio Stradivari written by William Henry Hill and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Violin makers of the Guarneri Family 1626 1726 written by William Henry Hill and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Violin written by William Sandys and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family 1626 1762 Their Life and Work By W H Hill Arthur F Hill and Alfred Ebsworth Hill With an Introductory Note by Edward J Dent With Plates written by William Henry HILL (Violin-Maker.) and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family 1626 1762 written by Alfred Hill and published by Albert Saifer. This book was released on 1980-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The violin makers of the Guarneri Family their life and work by Alfred Arthur and W Henry Hill With 30 plates in colour photogravure and colotype written by Alfred Hill and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stradivari s Genius written by Toby Faber and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “’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.
Download or read book The Violin A Social History of the World s Most Versatile Instrument written by David Schoenbaum and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Guarneri Mold and Modern Violin Making written by John Stuart Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Violin Maker written by John Marchese and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] magical, profound, and elegant look at the continued need for high quality in our throw away society.” —Douglas Brinkley, Historian This intensely human story, which moves from an ageless workshop in Brooklyn to the rehearsal rooms of Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and across the globe to Cremona, the birthplace of Stradivari, opens up for the reader the insular and fascinating realm of music, musicians, and the craftsmanship that is essential to that world. How does a simple piece of wood become the king of instruments? On a quest to learn about what many consider the world’s most perfect instrument, author and musician John Marchese befriends Sam Zygmuntowicz, an old-world craftsman in Brooklyn, New York, along with the man who is waiting for Sam’s next violin, Eugene Drucker of the world famous Emerson String Quartet. The violin does something remarkable, magical, and evocative. It is capable of bringing to life the mathematical marvels of Bach, the moan of a Gypsy melody, the wounded dignity of Beethoven's Concerto in D Major. No other instrument is steeped in such a rich brew of myth and lore—and yet the making of a violin starts with a simple block of wood. The Violin Maker takes the reader on a journey as that block of wood, in the hands of a master craftsman, becomes an instrument to rival one made by the greatest master of all time.
Download or read book The Secrets of Stradivari written by Simone F. Sacconi and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
