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Antonio Stradivari (/ ˌ s t r æ d ɪ ˈ v ɑːr i /, also US: /-ˈ v ɛər i /, [2] [3] [4] Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo stradiˈvaːri]; c. 1644 – 18 December 1737) was an Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps. [5]
A Stradivarius bow, The King Charles IV Violin Bow attributed to the Stradivari Workshop, is currently in the collection of the National Music Museum Object number: 04882, at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota. The Rawlins Gallery violin bow, NMM 4882, is attributed to the workshop of Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, c. 1700 ...
Omobono Stradivari was born on 14 November 1679 to Antonio Stradivari and his first wife Francesca Ferraboschi in Cremona, Italy.Little is known about his early life except that his family was living at a house known as Casa del Pescatore in the Parish of Saint Agata.
Martin Pierre Marsick in a picture from a New York magazine of 1895; photographed by Otto Wegener. Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick (9 March 1847, in Jupille-sur-Meuse – 21 October 1924, in Paris), was a Belgian violin player, composer and teacher. [1]
Janine Jansen: Falling for Stradivari is a documentary film released in 2021 and was presented by Asterisk Films and Foxy Films in association with Sky Arts. It is a film about a violin maker, Antonio Stradivari told through the eyes of Janine Jansen .
The Voller Brothers, William (born in 1854), Alfred (born in 1856) and Charles (born in 1865), were craftsmen who worked in Streatham, London, from 1885 to 1927 and are best known for their imitations of fine violins and the infamous "Balfour" Stradivarius.
A Stradivarius violin made at the "pinnacle" of Antonio Stradivari’s career sold at auction for an eye-popping price this week. The musical instrument, crafted in 1714 by Stradivari, the luthier ...
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini was born on 23 June 1711, in the hamlet of Bilegno, in what is now the Province of Piacenza in Northern Italy. Both his life and his career can be divided into four distinct periods, which correspond to the four cities in which he would live and work, Piacenza, Milan, Parma, and Turin.