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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Used book in good condition. Shows typical wear. Quick shipping. Satisfaction guaranteed!”
- Narrative Type
- History & Criticism
- Type
- Book
- Intended Audience
- N/A
- ISBN
- 9780375508486
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375508481
ISBN-13
9780375508486
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30997946
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stradivari's Genius : Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Musical Instruments / Strings, Composers & Musicians, General
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-051177
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Advance praise forStradivari's Genius "Toby Faber's engaging new book on Antonio Stradivari traces the history of a handful of his instrumentstheir biographies, who played them, where they wentand through it we learn a lot about how violins are made and the music world. It's fascinating, accessible, and enjoyable reading." Tracy Chevalier, author ofGirl with a Pearl Earring "A captivating book that follows the trail of six of Stradivari's creations. Like strange totems that cast an irresistible spell, these instruments bring out the best and the worst of those who would own them, and Faber deftly tells the stories in all their rich and surprising detail. Avarice and intrigue compete with generosity and love of music in a drama that Faber brings alive at every turn. An extraordinary accomplishment and a compelling read." Thad Carhart, author ofThe Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Dewey Decimal
787.2/19092
Synopsis
"'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 instrumentsfive violins and a celloand 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 outsetstarting 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 righta 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 violinand 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., The telling biography of a civil rights leader, the father of the "Queen of Soul," and one of America's greatest preachers
LC Classification Number
ML750.F33 2005
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