This book presents a unique view of the work of the great Italian
violin-makers from the 17th to the 19th centuries, based on the
collection of The Royal Academy of Music in London. The Academy, founded
in 1822, is Britain's senior conservatory and one of the oldest
institutions in the world for advanced musical training.
Included
here are masterpieces by Amati, Cappa, Celoniato, Ceruti, Dalla Costa,
Deconet, Gagliano, Grancino, Guadagnini, Guarneri, Landolfi, Pressenda,
Rota, Rugeri, Seraphin, Sorsana, Stradivari, Tecchler, and Testore. This
revised edition has an updated descriptive text, features 15 extra
entries, devotes at least two full-color spreads to each instrument, and
is supplemented with a new dendrochronological study.
Specially-commissioned photographs display each violin, viola, or cello
with large, high-quality illustrations, revealing details of these
instruments as never before.
The Academy's collection of stringed
instruments consists of around 100 violins and a similar combined
number of violas and celli, the majority of which were received as gifts
over the last century, beginning with the Rutson Bequest in 1906. These
working instruments are maintained in fine playing condition and
generally are in the hands of young musicians during their time as
students or at the outset of their careers. The fine selection presented
here underlines the collection's core of masterpiece Italian violins,
and for the most part this book includes only those instruments in the
purest state of conservation.
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