Anthony Stradivari the Celebrated Violin-Maker

Informationen zum Autor François-Joseph Fétis was a Belgian musicologist, composer, critic, and teacher. One of the 19th century's most influential critics, he compiled the Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique, an enduring resource. Stewart Pollens is a maker of violins and keyboard instruments who served as the Conservator of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1976 to 2006. He is the founder of Violin Advisor, LLC, a consulting firm that advises purchasers of fine violins. Klappentext Survey by a renowned musicologist explores the early history and construction of stringed instruments, work of the Italian masters, and bows of François Tourte. Provides contemporary glimpses of Paganini, Schumann, Berlioz.

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• Authors: Francois Joseph Fetis, Francois-Joseph Fetis, Francois-Joseph/ Pollens Fetis, Francois-Joseph Fetis
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2013
• EAN: 9780486498263
• ISBN: 978-0-486-49826-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Dover Books on Music; Dover Books on Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Organology