Stradivarius
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Word Count
73,500 words, Guess
Page Count
294 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10560205M
- ISBN-139780333989760
- ISBN-100333989767
- OCLC Control Number506369961
- OCLC Control Number60318231
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number56457227
- OCLC Control Numberstradivariusonec0000fabe
- Goodreads1132161
- LibraryThing447249
Classifications
- LCCML750 .F33 2005
Description
"Antonio Stradivari spent almost his whole life in the small northern Italian town of Cremona. He married twice, fathered eleven children, worked into his nineties and produced over a thousand violins, cellos and violas. Two hundred and fifty years after his death, about six hundred survive, the most highly prized instruments in the world." "In this narrative, Toby Faber explores Stradivari's life with six of his most important instruments and following them as they are bought and sold, played and collected down the centuries. It's a tale of dedication and disappointment, of meticulous forgeries and unscrupulous dealers, of extravagant talent and reckless generosity, of obsession, passion and fame. Ultimately, it is the story of how skill and perseverance enabled one man to reach for, and sometimes achieve, perfection."--BOOK JACKET.
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