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Trow (formerly Wilson's) Copartnership and Corporation Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City of New York
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1282
Antonio Stradivari
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

Antonio Stradivari

Construction methods, woods, varnishes, types of instruments, and special features plus life of the composer. "A rich mine of fascinating information." — American Record Guide. 93 illustrations. 4 color plates.

The Amadeus Book of the Violin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 598

The Amadeus Book of the Violin

Available for the first time in English, this book has been considered the best single encyclopedia of the violin for 20 years. All aspects of the violin are covered: construction, history, and literature; violin playing and teaching; and violin virtuosos through the ages.

Trifles Make Perfection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Trifles Make Perfection

"Wechsberg was a connoisseur in the old Continental sense of the word, a man who valued perfection for its own sake, seeing its quest as worthy and its attainment as eminently possible. Born in 1907 into a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family, he saw his comfortable life threatened by World War I and then extinguished by Hitler's annexation of his native Czechoslovakia. He came to America with only a basic command of English but an impressive understanding of what was happening in Europe. His most powerful essays, describing the tragic political fragmentation of Europe at the end of World War II, are never strident or bitter; his appreciations of Europe's finer offering are a sheer delight."--BOOK JACKET.

The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2506

The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Adventures of a Cello
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

The Adventures of a Cello

A delightful biography of a celebrated Stradivarius cello and an inviting overview of cello music and its preeminent composers and performers by world-famous concert cellist Carlos Prieto.

Hilda Hurricane
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Hilda Hurricane

Eighteen-year-old Hilda, known as "the girl in the gold bikini" when she swam at her country club in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, abruptly leaves the gilded life to take up residence in room 304 of the Hotel Marvelous—as a prostitute. There she becomes Hilda Hurricane, an erotic force of nature no man can resist. The exception is reporter-narrator Roberto Drummond, who attempts to unravel the mystery of why the girl in the gold bikini would forego a comfortable life to join the world's oldest profession. While some in Belo Horizonte cheer Hilda's liberated lifestyle, others seek to have her moved outside the city limits, and a would-be saint cannot seem to finish the exorcism he began outside t...

The Commissioners of Patents' Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1792

The Commissioners of Patents' Journal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1874
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Stradivari's Genius
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Stradivari's Genius

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-05-09
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  • Publisher: Random House

“’Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari’s violins without Antonio.” –George Eliot Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive. In this fascinating book, Toby Faber traces the rich, multilayered stories of six of these peerless instruments–five violins and a cello–and the one towering artist who brought them into being. Blending history, biography, meticulous detective work, and an abiding pa...