Word: stradivariuses
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...Leopold Auer, greatest teacher of violinists. Leopold Auer was interested in meeting the adolescent minstrel as he is in meeting all youthful violinists; he remained interested in Harry Braun. When Harry Braun was a little older he met Zinc-King August Heckscher, who gave him a $25,000 Stradivarius...
...example, his Ildebrando da Parma. He studied at the Conservatory of Parma for six years, specializing in the model qualities of Greek and Gregorian music. Since 1918, he has directed the Florence Conservatory. In Florence he lives now in almost ratlike retirement. His wife, a descendant of Stradivarius, is dead. He likes quiet and hates traveling; he was made sorrowful before the War when his enemies, on account of his "revolutionary" music, made him the object of belligerent slander. His most famed work previous to Fra Gherardo was Debora e Jaele, an opera about a Hebrew prophetess in which...
Suppose a millionaire, proud possessor of a portion of the world's art treasures, dying, should command his property burned, destroyed irrevocably? Last week, in France, a funeral took place. Into the grave of one Alexandre Bailie, musician, was lowered his violin, of famed Stradivarius make. The deceased had decreed that the Stradivarius be buried with...
...rare Italian violins, violas and cellos, in the auditorium of this Manhattan store. Alfred Casella, famed Italian composer, musicianly, masterly, led the string orchestra picked from the New York Philharmonic,' Dr. Alexander Russell played the organ; Josef Szigete, Hungarian violinist, played on the famed "Chant du Cygne" made by Stradivarius in 1737, when he was 93, Saint-Saens' "Le Cygne"; played it cleanly, limpidly; let no unwanted sentiment blur its colors...
...Assembled in Europe last season by experts solely for concert purposes, never before played on in the U. S. The instruments were: First violins?the Joachim Stradivarius, 1723; the La Chesney Stradivarius, 1687; the Montagnana, 1747; a Tecchler, 1722. Second violins?the Dancla Stradivarius, 1710; a Guadagnivi. Violas? a Guadagnivi, 1780; Gaffriller, 1727. Cellos?a Ruger, 1765; a Tecchler...