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| | Antonio Stradivari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Antonio Stradivari (1644 – December 18, 1737, Cremona) was an Italian luthier (maker of violins and other stringed instruments), the most prominent member of that profession. | | | The world's two largest publicly accessible collections of Stradivari instruments belong to the King of Spain, consisting of two violins, two cellos, and a viola, exhibited in the Music Museum at the former Royal Palace (Palacio Real) in Madrid, and the U.S Library of Congress' collection of three violins, a viola, and a cello. | | | Apart from violins, Stradivari also made harps, guitars, violas, and cellos — more than 1,100 instruments in all, by current estimate. |
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| | The Glory of Cremona - Antonio Stradivari, Stradivarius, Guarneri, Amati... |
| | During Antonio Stradivari's long lifetime, the violin and its family of instruments reached extraordinary popularity and became the dominant instruments of Western music, for chamber and orchestral music, for opera and for the church. | | | Among them were Andrea Guarneri, the founder of a new dynasti of violin makers, Francisco Ruggieri, Nicola's son, Girolamo, and the immortal Antonio Stradivari. | | | Yet another part of the CD "The glory of Cremona" leaflet, named 'The artist and his instrument', written by Maestro Ruggiero Ricci, who played all 15 famous old violins, can be found in another article. |
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http://www.kulviolins.com/glory_of_cremona.htm
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| | Telegraph Arts The finest of all fiddlemakers |
| | Antonio Stradivari was a remarkable man. He lived to be 93, fathered 11 children and made some 2,000 instruments - mainly violins, but also cellos, a few violas and a single harp. | | | In this book, after describing Stradivari's career and the history of the violin before his time, Toby Faber follows the fates of five violins and one cello through various hands, famous and otherwise. | | | According to the great violinist Nicolo Paganini, Antonio Stradivari (better known as Stradivarius), to make his celebrated violins used only "the wood of trees on which nightingales sang". |
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http://www.arts.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/09/05/bofab05.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/09/05/botop.html
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| | The Stradivari Society - Coming Soon |
| | The Chicago Symphony has two Stradivari violins for use by its members and The Los Angeles Philharmonic has a Stradivari violin and cello. | | | Most of the post-1700 Stradivari violins and post-1730 Guarneri violins currently sell in a range of $2,000,000 to $6,000,000 depending on their condition and historical significance. | | | Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesù violins are the da Vinci's of the instrument world. |
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http://www.stradivarisociety.com/InvestInInstrument.htm
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| | Violin- Famous Violin Makers |
| | Antonio Stradivari, maker of Stradivarius violins, is probably the most famous violin maker ever. | | | In 1684, Amati died and Stradivari changed his violin design to have an orange tint with a more powerful form. | | | Throughout his lifetime, he made 1,116 instruments including twenty-five violas, one hundred cellos, two guitars, and six-hundred violins. |
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http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/2030/jmoriuchi/violin-famousviolinmakers.html
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| | Stradivari, Antonio on Encyclopedia.com |
| | STRADIVARI, ANTONIO [Stradivari, Antonio], or Antonius Stradivarius, 1644-1737, Italian violin maker of Cremona; pupil of Niccolò Amati. | | | He produced at least 1,116 instruments, of which 540 violins, 12 violas, and 50 cellos were known. | | | musical instrument was 1.8 million dollars, for a Stradivari violin sold at Christie's in London in 1990. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/S/Stradiva.asp
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| | NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives |
| | Until recent times it was thought that the secret of Stradivari's acoustically perfect violins lay in their varnish, the formula of which has never been discovered. | | | Today's Honorary Subscriber is the Italian violinmaker Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) whose design for the violin became the craft's standard and made the name Stradivarius preeminent in the history of violin making. | | | In addition to these authentic Stradivarius violins, there are thousands of other violins bearing the label "Stradivarius" merely on the basis that their makers followed Stradivari's original design. |
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http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=441
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| | Stradivarius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are two complete Stradivari guitars in existence, as well as several fragments of guitars. | | | Their individual qualities are considered worth distinguishing, and a Strad is often identified by the name of someone (often a famous musician) who formerly owned it, or regularly performed on it. | | | They rarely come up for sale and the highest price paid for a Stradivarius (or any musical instrument) at public auction was 'The Lady Tennant', made in 1699 which sold for US$2,032,000 in 2005. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradivarius
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| | Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Stradvarius Violins |
| | In addition, thousands of violins have been made in tribute to Stradivari, copying his model and bearing labels that read "Stradivarius." Therefore, the presence of a Stradivarius label in a violin has no bearing on whether the instrument is a genuine work of Stradivari himself. | | | Goodkind, Herbert K. Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari, 1644-1737: Treatises on the Life and Work of the Patriarch of the Violinmakers. | | | His interpretation of geometry and design for the violin has served as a conceptual model for violin makers for more than 250 years. |
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http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/stradv.htm
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| | Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of ... |
| | Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. | | | Reviews: "Toby Faber's engaging new book on Antonio Stradivari traces the history of a handful of his instruments -- their biographies, who played them, where they went -- and through it we learn a lot about how violins are made and the music world. | | | Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection |
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http://www.bordersstores.com/search/search.jsp?mediaType=1&srchType=ISBN&srchTerms=0375508481
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| | Violin HQ - Stradivari Violin |
| | Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius December... | | | Goodkind, Herbert K. Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari, 1644-1737: Treatises on the Life and Work of the Patriarch of the Violinmakers. | | | Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius December 1, 1671 in history |
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http://www.violin-hq.com/stradivariviolin
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| | Antonio Stradivari, Chapter One |
| | The first documentary intimation even of Antonio's existence in Cremona, as yet met with, is furnished by the label inserted in one of his violins, and dated 1666. | | | This is the more to be regretted inasmuch as we lose not only the record of the funeral expenses of the master, but that of his second wife also. | | | The rooms were distributed as follows: four on the ground floor - viz. |
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| | Makers Biographies |
| | The great Italian violin makers Antonio Stradivari and Andrea Guarneri were his pupils. | | | His violins are more sought after by players than those of any other instrument maker with the exception of his contemporary, Giuseppe Antonio Guarnerius, known commonly as "Del Gesu". | | | He inherited the traditions of the Cremonese violin makers from his teacher, Nicolò Amati, and brought their craft to perfection. |
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| | Soundpost Online |
| | This is at odds with the original conclusion of Klein which was corroborated by Kuniholm and places the date of the spruce for the front of the "Messiah" at 1738, one year after Antonio Stradivari's death. | | | Purportedly the violin remained in the Stradivari estate until it was sold along with other instruments and numerous Stradivari workshop relics, in 1775 by Paolo Stradivari, the last surviving son of Antonio Stradivari. | | | The itinerant violin dealer, Luigi Tarisio is said to have purchased the “Messiah” violin from the Cozio estate upon the death of Count Cozio in 1827. |
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http://www.soundpostonline.com/archive/fall2000/page17.html
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| | Cozio.com: violin by Antonio Stradivari, 1722 (Joachim; Elman) |
| | Cozio.com: violin by Antonio Stradivari, 1722 (Joachim; Elman) | | | "The ex-Joachim Elman Stradivari", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, March-April, 1954. | | | Black-and-white photos (front, back & side): Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972. |
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http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=1503
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| | Antonio Stradivari has an eye That winces at false work and loves the true." Then Naldo: "'Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. | | | Were God at fault for violins, thou absent?" "Yes; He were at fault for Stradivari's work." "Why, many hold Giuseppe's violins As good as thine." "May be: they are different. | | | Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less." But he: "'Twere purgatory here to make them ill; And for my fame - when any master holds 'Twixt chin and hand a violin of mine, He will be glad that Stradivari lived, Made violins, and made them of the best. |
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| | Soundpost Online |
| | Count Cozio di Salabue, the famed collector of Stradivari violins, and of the relics of the Stradivari workshop, catalogued in his diaries some instruments with the sotto la disciplina label. | | | As for the finished products of the sons, as distinct from those of their father, a label with the phrase sotto la disciplina was applied to these. | | | When not doing his ground-breaking research on the history of violins, the author is a bass player with the Philadelphia Orchestra. |
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http://www.soundpostonline.com/archive/fall2000/page2.html
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| | Consorzio Liutai & Archettai 'Antonio Stradivari' Cremona, Early music and baroque music association |
| | Consorzio Liutai and Archettai 'Antonio Stradivari' Cremona, Early music and baroque music association | | | Visitors interested in buying any instrument or bow, or simply attracted by the chance to listen to instruments made by Stradivari’s heirs, can try them in all freedom. | | | The Palazzo Fodri holds a Permanent Exhibition of stringed instruments and bows made by contemporary cremonese violin and bow makers inside the Consortium. |
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| | No Strings Attached (Antonio Stradivari crafted instruments on loan from God.) |
| | As far as the dimensions are concerned, the violin as passed on to us by Stradivari is completely standardized... | | | It is often said that one of modern technology's great embarrassments is its inability to match the quality of violins made completely by hand nearly 400 years ago by Antonio Stradivari. | | | SEVERAL YEARS AGO I decided to make a violin. |
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| | The History Of The Famous Guarnerius Violin Makers |
| | Giuseppe is known as "del Gesu" because of the initials I. and a cross inscribed in his violins. | | | A family of violin makers in Cremona, Italy, in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Guarneris, along with the Amati and Stradivari families, brought the art of violin making to it's peak. | | | Guarneri (in latin, Guarnerius), Italian family of violin makers, one of whom, Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, known as Giuseppe del Gesu, is regarded as second only to the great Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari. |
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| | Violin, "The Harrison," by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1693 |
| | The Harrison is one of only a handful of Stradivari violins that survive with its original neck, blocked out at the base of the neck, with oxidation showing from the three original nails, as can be seen the photos above. | | | If you think you have a Stradivari violin, please read this information before contacting the Museum. | | | Postcard featuring this violin available from Gift Shop |
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http://www.usd.edu/smm/Violins/Stradivari3598/3598StradViolin.html
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| | Cozio.com: violin by Antonio Stradivari, 1715 (Cremonese; Harold Joachim) |
| | Cozio.com: violin by Antonio Stradivari, 1715 (Cremonese; Harold Joachim) | | | Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole): Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972. | | | Order Black-and-white photos (front, back & side): Mostra di Antonio Stradivari (Palazzo Borromeo - Isola Bella), Turris Editrice, Cremona, 1963. |
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| | Antonio Stradivari Book |
| | There are individual descriptive articles by Charles Beare noting the significance and provenance of the 27 violins, 5 violas, 5 cellos, and other instruments of the period. | | | It also includes an introduction to the history of Cremonese violin making, centered on the achievements of Stradivari's working life. | | | The book contains a comprehensive record of forty-four of Stradivari's finest and most interesting instruments. |
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| | Patterns |
| | Compare the f-holes and body shape of this violin with those of the Stradivari above. | | | They are known for their big, rich sound and great power in large halls. | | | The model is respected for both its visual harmony and proportions, and for its acoustic properties. |
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| | cellos by Antonio Stradivari |
| | The production of violins made by Antonio Stradivari is estimated to 420 instruments, whereas only about 52 cellos have been inventoried. | | | The exhibition held in Cremona from October 2 to 17, 2004 - promoted by Ente Triennale - focused on this particular time element and presented a "panoramic" evolution in Stradivari's production of cellos, that is his constant efforts in reducing the instrument's dimensions to please the musicians' requests and the musical needs of that time. |
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| | Artifact: Full Record for Antonio Stradivari |
| | Sections on the myth of Stradivari and violin making are still under construction (March 2005). | | | Description: Available in German and English and created by Thomas Knierim, this web site is dedicated to Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), "the most famous violin maker [who] ever lived". | | | It consists of the following sections: a portrait of Stradivari; a teacher / pupil generations tree; a bibliography on Stradivari, violin making and bowed instruments; and FAQs. |
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| | Britain buys famous Stradivari violin - INQ7.net |
| | LONDON -- Britain has acquired the "Viotti" violin, one of the finest made by the Italian Antonio Stradivari, the most famous violin maker in history, Christie's auction house said Friday. | | | The violin is heading for the Royal Academy of Music in London where it will be displayed alongside other renowned stringed instruments. | | | The violin is thought to have been made in 1709 and is named after its former owner, Giovanni Battista Viotti (1753-1824), the most influential violinist of his time. |
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| | The ULTIMATE tree-ring pages! |
| | The wood used by Antonio Stradivari and all Cremonese violin makers for the violin top was Norway spruce (Picea abies). | | | I had the opportunity to investigate the tree rings on the "Messiah" violin and took this mosaic | | | I've had many requests to provide digital pictures of charcoal samples that show tree rings |
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| | Encyclopedia Smithsonian:Gagliano |
| | Some violas, cellos, and one double bass, and several violins have survived. | | | As many as eighteen violin makers named Gagliano are known. | | | They have often been imitated and some have been mistaken for those of Stradivari. |
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| | The Gentile Collection - An artist's remarkable exact miniatures of legendary musical instruments. |
| | The Hellier violin is one of the 10 decorative instruments that Antonio Stradivari himself created. | | | With just the right pucker, it is actually possible to elicit a sound from the mouthpiece of Paul Gentile's miniature reproduction of the Selmer Mrk VI alto saxophone. | | | He works with a jeweler's loop to see the tiny pieces, some of which are barely visible to the naked eye. |
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| | Antonio Stradivari in Japan |
| | Here is your chance to bid on one of the rarest violin books. | | | This was the first violin book to approximate the experience of personally inspecting all four sides of fourteen representative Stradivari instruments. | | | Antonio Stradivari - His Life and Instruments by William Henley |
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| | Stradivari (1989) |
| | Plot Summary: As a boy the orphan Antonio Stradivari heard for the first time in his life the sound of a violin and he was fascinated by its voice... | | | I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it | | | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Stradivari (1989) |
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| | Stradivari Genealogy |
| | These beautiful violins get to be visited and played by some of the world's greatest violinists. | | | Some of world's finest instruments are owned by Northwest collector | | | The main concern for David Fulton is preservation of these priceless Stradivari, Guarneri, and Bergonzi. |
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| | Antonio Stradivari, 1714, "General Kyd" |
| | You can hear the powerful, yet silvery and voluptuous tone of this violin on many, many recordings. | | | When the people who were lending it to her got divorced she was given the option of acquiring the instrument (at a very good price) but was not able to raise the money. | | | The General Kyd then passed into the hands of the Italian violinist Uto Ughi who owned it for a couple of years (and had the original Stradivari neck replaced by a modern neck in Switzerland in 1992), and from Ugi it passed to the present owner in 1994. |
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| | ANTONIO STRADIVARI - LoveToKnow Article on ANTONIO STRADIVARI |
| | Antonio Stradivaris sons Francesco (1671-1743) and Omobono (1679-1742) were also violinmakers, who assisted their father, together with Carlo Bergonzi, who appears to have succeeded to the possession of Antonios stock-in-trade. | | | ANTONIO STRADIVARI - LoveToKnow Article on ANTONIO STRADIVARI | | | The Stradivari method of violin-making created a standard for subsequent times; but what is regarded as Antonios special advantage, now irrecoverable, was his varnish, soft in texture, shading from orange to red, the composition of which has been much debated. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/ST/STRADIVARI_ANTONIO.htm
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| | Antonio Stradivari, Chapter Twelve |
| | The costume, the personnel of the portrait, its accessories-all tell that the picture represents not Stradivari, but some musician who lived towards the close of the sixteenth or the earlier part of the seventeenth century. | | | Everything about the portrait not only points to a date considerably earlier than the time of Antonio Stradivari, but to an original who was a musician. | | | In replying to us Signor Stradivari stated that the photograph was a faithful copy taken from the original painting, which had always been accepted by his family as undoubtedly a portrait of his ancestor; |
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| | The Connection.org : Stradivarius |
| | George Eliot said this about him, "Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari's violins without Antonio." 250 years later the world's greatest musicians still play his instruments: YoYo Ma, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Itzhak Perlman to name a few. | | | Antonio Stradivari made over one thousand stringed instruments of which about six hundred survive today. | | | He took the craft of violin-making to a level that no predecessor could have imagined. |
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| | 10th "Antonio Stradivari" International Luthiers' Competition |
| | The objective of the 10th "Antonio Stradivari" International Luthiers' Competition of Cremona is to compare the standards of contemporary stringed instrument making worldwide and to draw attention to its best results. | | | The competition is scheduled to take place in the city of Cremona and the following categories of stringed instruments will be judged: | | | The total point value calculated by summing the points gained by each instrument in the final and the preceding tests will determine the winners of the Competition, the second and third prizes and the honorary mentions. |
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| | Rolin Music |
| | He embarked on a quest for perfection, constantly modifying the models he had inherited from the Amatis to create his own forms and others which superseded them. | | | Antonio Stradivari enjoyed an exceptionally long and fruitful career of almost 70 years. |
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