Violins & violinists / translated by Egon Larsen. With a chapter on English violin-makers by E.W. Lavender
1950, First Edition. London : Rockliff. Poor copy in the original boards; failed binding crudely repaired with a patterned acrylic cover. Front hinge starting, with reader annotations to endpapers. Pages 117-120 and page 223 missing; leaves are foxed and dust-dulled throughout. A serviceable reading copy. Item #454959
Physical description; xvi, 222 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Illus. includes 67 plates and facsimiles (some of makers' signatures). Contents; Part I. Violins. Roads to the violin -- The structure of the violin -- The birth of the violin -- Cremona. The Amati dynasty ; The divine "Strad" ; The mystery of the Guarneri -- Cremona after Stradivari and violin-making in the rest of Italy -- Jacob Stainer, an Austrian genius -- The German school of violin-making -- Mirecourt and Paris -- Tarisio -- The secret of the Italian varnish -- English violin-makers / by E. W. Lavender, editor of "The Strad" -- Part II. Violinists. Italy, the home of violin-playing -- Violinists in Germany, England, and France -- Berlin, Mannheim, Vienna -- The Viotti set -- The French trio -- Paganini. The Italian period ; The magician ; Paganini's influence -- Ludwig Spohr and the Viennese school -- The Romantics -- Gleanings and vista. Subjects; Amati (family), Baillot, Pierre 1771-1842, Guarneri (family), Kreutzer, Rodolphe 1766-1831, Rode, Pierre 1774-1830, Paganini, Niccolo 1782-1840, Spohr, Louis 1784-1859, Stainer, Jacob c.1617-1683, Stradivari, Antonio c.1644-1737, Tarisio, Luigi c.1790-1854, Viotti, Giovanni Battista 1755-1824, Violin - History, Violinists, Violin makers - England.
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