The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
Chapter 35
Rance, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Rauch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Rauch, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Rauch, Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Raut, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Ravanon, King of Ceylon, and his instrument called the "Ravanastron" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Rawlins, Henry, patronised by Giardini . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Rayman, Jacob, founder of English Violin-making; good character of work and varnish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Reade, Charles, on the "Four Corners" of the Violono, 25; on the Violins of Stradivari, 201; on the art of "cutting," 249; his letter on the Betts Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Rebab, taken to Spain by the Moors, 7; in Egypt . . . . . . . . 8
Rebec, Origin of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Reichel, Johann Conrad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Reichel, Johann Gottfried . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Reichers, August . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Remy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Remy, Jean Mathurin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Remy, Jules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Renaudin, Leopold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Renault, Nicolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Ribeca, alleged Arabian origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Richards, Edwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Riess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Rinaldi, Gioffredo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Rivolta, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Rocca, J. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Rode, Violinist and composer, his Caprices and Concertos, and his Instruction Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
Rodiani, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Rogeri, Giovanni Battista, pupil of Niccolo Amati; his work highly valued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Rogeri, Pietro Giacomo, pupil of N. Amati; good work; excellent varnish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Rogers, Dr. Benjamin, his four-part Airs for Violins . . . . . . 381
Rombouts, Peeter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Rook, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Roscher, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Ross, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Rosse (or Ross) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Rota, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Roth, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Rousseau, Jean, his Treatise on the Viol . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rovetta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Royal Amateur, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Royal Band of Charles II., its poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Royal Society of Musicians, Origin of . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Roze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Ruf, Herr S., his History of Jacob Stainer . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Ruggeri, Francesco ("Il Per"); excellent character of workmanship, design, and varnish; pupil of Niccolo Amati . . . 165
Ruggeri, Giacinto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Ruggeri, Giambattista, high-class work in Violins, Violas, and Violoncellos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Ruggeri, Vincenzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Ruppert, Franz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Ruppert, J. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
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Sacchini, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Sacquin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Sainprae, Jacques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Sainton, M., Violinist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Salabue, Count Cozio di, his passion for and collection of Violins, 359; his correspondence relative to his purchase of the reliques of Antonio Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Sale of Cremonese Instruments in 1790 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Salle, a clever restorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Salo, Gasparo da . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168-170
Salomon, Jean Baptiste, maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Salomon, Violinist, his concerts in London; his negotiations with Haydn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
San Domenico, Cremona, burial-place of Stradivari . . . . . . . 212
Sanoni, Giovanni Battista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Sanscrit Literature, References to the Violin in . . . . . . . . 5
Santo, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Sanzo, Milan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Saraband, Moorish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Sardagna, Counsellor Von, his contribution to Jacob Stainer's history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Sardi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Saunier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Savart, his paper on the construction of bow instruments . . . . 234
Sawicki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Saxon Fiddle, in the Cottonian MSS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Scandinavian origin of the Violin, alleged . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Scheinlein, Johann Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Scheinlein, Mathias F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Schell, Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Schlick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Schmidt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Schnoeck, Egidius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Schonfelder, Johann A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Schonger, Georg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Schonger, Franz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Schorn, Johann, an excellent maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Schorn, Johann Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Schott, Martin, Lute-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Schuler, Dr. Johann, his novel, "Jacob Stainer" . . . . . . . . 276
Schwartz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Schweitzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Scott, Sir Walter, on Music and Fiddles . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
Scroll, A Wandering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Sellas, Matteo, Lute-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Serafino, Santo (Sanctus Seraphin), famed for exquisite finish; German and Italian models; excellent varnish and handsome wood, but style inferior, and lacking originality . . . . . . 172
Shaw, Dr., his "Travels in the East" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Silvestre, Hippolyte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Silvestre, Hippolyte Chretien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Silvestre, Pierre, copyist of Stradivari, of high order and exquisite finish; fellow worker with Lupot and Gand . . . . . 253
Simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Simonin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Simpson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Simpson, Dr. Christopher, Anecdote of . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Sivori, Camillo, his high artistic career . . . . . . . . . . . 392
"Skit," A musical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
"Slab-back" and "Whole-back," The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Smith, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Smith, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Smith, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Sneider, Josefo; many of Girolamo Amati's instruments attributed to this maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Socchi, Vincenzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Socquet, Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
"Sonata del Diavolo," Tartini's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Sonatas, Earliest appearance of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Sorsana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Sound-bar, oblique position of, 35; its purpose and character . 36
Sound-holes, crescent-shaped, 22; of Gasparo and Amati, 80; shape and importance of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Sound-post, its purpose and service, 36; its position, 37; methods of fixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Spohr, Louis, Violinist and composer; his Quartettes and Duets . 408
Spohr and his Guarneri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
Spohr and the Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
"Sports and Pastimes," Strutt's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Stadelmann, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Stadelmann, Johann Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Stainer, Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Stainer, Jacob, the greatest of German artists; his popularity; Sir John Hawkins' estimate of his work; originality and peculiarity of his model; variation in style; his "Elector Stainers;" his personal history, by Herr S. Ruf and Counsellor Von Sardagna; Dr. Johann Schuler's novel, "Jacob Stainer;" his marriage; his imprisonment for heresy; his poverty and sad death; his numerous followers and libellists . . . . . . . 271-280
Stainer, Markus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Statlee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Staugtinger, Mathias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Steininger, Franz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Steininger, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Sterne, Laurence, on Hobby-horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Stolen "Strad," A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Storioni, Lorenzo, follower of Guarneri del Gesu; his freak as to placing the sound-holes; his Violins roughly finished, but valued for acoustical properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Stoss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Stoss, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Stradivari, Antonio, date of birth, 178; Paolo Lombardini's pamphlet on his life, 185; his marriage, and pedigree of his family, 178-179; affinity of his work with that of his master, Niccolo Amati, 182; second epoch, and change of style, 189-190; possessor of the tools and models of N. Amati, 184; his house at Cremona, 187; extracts from Desiderio Arisi, 185; Vincenzo Lancetti on the purchase of Stradivari's models and tools by Count Cozio di Salabue; the letters of Paolo and Antonio Stradivari, junior, in reference thereto, 188; splendid character of his varnish, 198; Cardinal Orsini's and the Duke of Modena's patronage, 190-191; the "Long Strad," 195; his work for the Spanish Court and for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 193; letter of Marquis Ariberti, 193; a "Concerto of Violins," 194; the "golden period," 197; the "Betts Strad," 466; variations in qualities of wood, 200; the "Dolphin Strad," 200; Prince Eugene and war in Cremona, 203; visit of Philip V. of Spain to Italy, and entry into Cremona, 204; Stradivari's instruments for presentation to Philip 204, and to the Archduke Charles of Austria, 206; letter of Lorenzo Giustiniani to Stradivari, 206; characteristics of the instruments of his later period, 209-211; place of his burial, 212-214; indifference of Stradivari's own townsmen as to his remains, 215; further notice of Count Cozio di Salabue relative to the Stradivari reliques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Stradivari, Francesco, son and successor of Antonio; excellent character of work, age, and date of death . . . . . . . . . . 217
Stradivari, Omobono, successor to the business of his father Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Stradivari, Paolo, cloth merchant; his correspondence with Count Cozio di Salabue relative to the Stradivari reliques 219, 360-364
Straube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Strauss, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Stregner, Magno, Lute-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Strings, Italian and other, causes of variation in the quality of; how to choose them; material used in their manufacture; experiments on the tension of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43-56
Sursano, Spirito . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
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Tanegia, Carlo Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Taningard, Giorgio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Tarisio, Luigi, and his collection of Violins; his singular career and character, and painful end . . . . . . . . . . 344-356
Tarr, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Tartini, Giuseppe; his musical compositions; high opinion of Dr. Burney on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Tartini, Signor, on the treatment of the Violin . . . . . . . . 501
Taylor, meritorious work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Tecchler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Tedesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Tension and pressure of Violin Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Testore, Carlo Antonio, excellent work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Testore, Carlo Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Testore, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Testore, Paolo Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Teutonic origin of the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Thackeray on Orchestral Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Theress, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Thibout, Jacques Pierre, a well-known dealer, and excellent workman; his relations with Luigi Tarisio . . . . . . . . . . 254
Thomassin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Thorowgood, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Three-stringed Violins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Tieffenbrucker, Leonardo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Tieffenbrucker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Tielke, Joachim, Lute and Guitar-maker; magnificent ornamentation of his work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Tielke, Joachim, Viol and Violin-maker, examples in the Kensington collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Tilley, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Tobin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Tobin, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Todini, Michele, his musical clock-work, and new mode of stringing the Violono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Tononi, Carlo Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Tononi, Carlo, excellent work and varnish . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Tononi, Felice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Tononi, Giovanni, high-class work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Tononi, Guido . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Traditional History of Cremonese makers (see Ceruti, Enrico) . . 108
Trapani, Raffaele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Trinity in Unity, Musical illustration of . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Troubadours and Trouveres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Tywersus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
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Urquhart, Thomas, high-class work and excellent varnish . . . . 329
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Vaillant, Francois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Valentine William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Valenzano, G. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
"Varnish, Dodd's" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Varnish, Italian, that of the several Schools compared . . . . . 70
Venetian Catlins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Veracini, Solo Violinist, 208, 379; J. B. Volumier, and Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Veronese, Paolo, his "Marriage at Cana" . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Veron, Pierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Vetrini, Battista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Vibrecht, Gysbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Vieuxtemps, Henri, his Concertos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Vimercati, Paolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Viola da Braccia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Viola di Bordone, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Violin, construction of the, 27; three-stringed, 25; four-stringed, 26; acoustical properties of the . . . . . . . 30
Violin, Tartini on the art of Playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Violins, from a medical point of view . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
Violin, The, and its Votaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Violinist, An indefatigable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Violono, or Bass-Viol, of Gasparo da Salo . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Viols, Ancient, by Hieronymus Brensius . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Viols in connection with Madrigal and with Church Service . 21, 377
Viotti, Giovanni Battista, high character of his compositions . 390
Voel, E., excellent character of work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Vogel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Vogler, Johann Georg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Voigt, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Voleme (Volumier), G. B., musical director to the King of Poland, and Stradivari's set of twelve Violins . . . . . . . . 207
Vuillaume, Claude Francois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Vuillaume, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Vuillaume, J. B., a prolific maker and excellent workman, 255; his association with Tarisio, and purchase of his collection . 356
Vuillaume, N. F., maker and connoisseur . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Vuillaume, Sebastien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
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Wagner, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Wamsley, Peter, high-class English maker . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Wandering Scroll, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Waterloo Purse, and _Stradivarius_ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Weickert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Weigert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Weiss, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Wenger, G. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Wenger, Lute-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Widhalm (or Withalm), Leopold, a high-class imitator of Stainer 283
Wieniawski, Henri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Willaert, Adrian, the "Father of the Madrigal" . . . . . . . . . 21
Wise, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Wish, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Withers, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Withers, Edward (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Witting, J. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
"Wolf-notes" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Woods, various, used in the manufacture of the Violin . . . . . 31
Wyemann, Cornelius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
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Young, father and son, and Purcell's catch . . . . . . . . . . . 330
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Zannetto, Viol-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Zanola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Zanoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Zanotti, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Zanti, Alessandro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Zanure, Viol-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Zenatto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Zwerger, Antoni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
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The Violin and its Music BY GEORGE HART
Illustrated with several Steel Engravings of Eminent Violinists.
FORMING THE COMPANION VOLUME TO THE VIOLIN AND ITS FAMOUS MAKERS.
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La nouvelle Edition soigneusement revue et augmentee de cet important ouvrage contient la liste descriptive de Luthiers la plus complete qui ait paru jusqu' ici: elle offre de plus au lecteur une notice circonstanciee sur ANTOINE STRADIVARIUS.
L'auteur a eclaire cette notice d'un jour nouveau et y a jete un vif eclat par les details pleins d'interet qu'il a puises dans les manuscrits authentiques de Cremone et par les nombreux extraits qu'il a tires des pieces originales de la correspondance du grand artiste.
Extrait du "Menestrel."
"L'ouvrage tres important que voici est une traduction faite sur la cinquieme edition publiee en Angleterre. Je crois avoir rendu compte, quelques annees. Depuis lors, l'auteur a ameliore, agrandi, complete son oeuvre, et le volume superbe qu'il nous offre aujourd'hui parait devoir etre un texte definitif.