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245 14 a| The violin hunter /c| William Alexander Silverman ; with a foreword by Josef Gingold.;

260 a| New York :b| The John Day Company,c| [1957];

300 a| 256 pages ;c| 21 cm;

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520 a| But for an obscure Italian whose life story is here told for the first time, the finest violins ever made--more than a thousand masterpieces by Stradivari and his contemporaries, including most of the instruments treasured by today's great artists--would have remained lost to the world of music. Luigi Tarisio was the greatest collector of stringed instruments who has ever lived. Musicians know his name, but little else about him. It has taken years of research for William Alexander Silverman to piece his story together. By the year 1750 most of the immortal violinmakers of Cremona--Stradivari, Guarneri, Bergonzi, and others--had died. The value of their creations was not understood in Italy at the time, and by 1800 most of them had disappeared and were gathering dust in attics, monasteries, and neglected villas. Then Luigi Tarisio, who had hoped to be a violinist but was handicapped by injured fingers, vowed to bring these masterpieces back from oblivion. He searched until he had two sacks full of them, then went to Paris--afoot all the way and looking like a scarecrow--to sell them. He knew that they would be appreciated in that cultural capital even if not in Italy. His arrival practically turned upside down the world of the Paris collectors. And from then on, for nearly twenty-seven years, a golden stream of Cremona violins poured through Tarisio's hands: almost every instrument Stradivari had made, the instruments that would later be played by performers from Paganini to Elman, Kreisler, Francescatti, Nathan Milstein, and Heifetz, even the historic "Le Messie" which was played once in 1855 for the first time since Stradivari made it in 1716, and never thereafter--a grand total worth more than fifteen million dollars by today's values.;

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The violin hunter / William Alexander Silverman ; with a foreword by Josef Gingold.

Author/creator	Silverman, William Alexander
Other author	Gingold, Josef, writer of foreword.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : The John Day Company, [1957]
Description	256 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects	Tarisio, Luigi, approximately 1790-1854. Violin--Collectors and collecting. --Biography.

Abstract

But for an obscure Italian whose life story is here told for the first time, the finest violins ever made--more than a thousand masterpieces by Stradivari and his contemporaries, including most of the instruments treasured by today's great artists--would have remained lost to the world of music. Luigi Tarisio was the greatest collector of stringed instruments who has ever lived. Musicians know his name, but little else about him. It has taken years of research for William Alexander Silverman to piece his story together. By the year 1750 most of the immortal violinmakers of Cremona--Stradivari, Guarneri, Bergonzi, and others--had died. The value of their creations was not understood in Italy at the time, and by 1800 most of them had disappeared and were gathering dust in attics, monasteries, and neglected villas. Then Luigi Tarisio, who had hoped to be a violinist but was handicapped by injured fingers, vowed to bring these masterpieces back from oblivion. He searched until he had two sacks full of them, then went to Paris--afoot all the way and looking like a scarecrow--to sell them. He knew that they would be appreciated in that cultural capital even if not in Italy. His arrival practically turned upside down the world of the Paris collectors. And from then on, for nearly twenty-seven years, a golden stream of Cremona violins poured through Tarisio's hands: almost every instrument Stradivari had made, the instruments that would later be played by performers from Paganini to Elman, Kreisler, Francescatti, Nathan Milstein, and Heifetz, even the historic "Le Messie" which was played once in 1855 for the first time since Stradivari made it in 1716, and never thereafter--a grand total worth more than fifteen million dollars by today's values.

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