Name: Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, one Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
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Author: Toby Faber
ISBN: 9780375760853

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Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, one Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Random House

Author

Toby Faber

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

265

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0375760857

ISBN13

9780375760853

Synopsis "Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, one Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection "

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, their quality unequalled by any subsequent violin-maker. In this fascinating book, Toby Faber traces the rich, multilayered stories of six of these peerless creations–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 takes us from the salons of Vienna to the concert halls of New York, and from the breakthroughs of Beethoven’s last quartets to the first phonographic recordings. This magnificent narrative invites us to share the life, the intrigue, and the incomparable beauty of the world’s most marvelous stringed instruments.

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