A happy coincidence of timing.
Thus one could qualify the concordance of times between the sale, this week, of the rare Guarnerius by Régis Pasquier (presented at Aguttes with an initial estimate of 4 million), and the publication last month of the beautiful book by Jean- Philippe Échard,
Stradivarius and violin making in Cremona
.
In 256 pages, the curator of the Music Museum, attached to the Philharmonie de Paris, returns to the origins of the Stradivarius myth, analyzing the legacy of the luthier but also his posterity, starting from the museum's collections.
Rich in around fifty pieces (instruments and tools) originating from the various workshops of the golden age of Cremona, these latter offer, in the absence of conventional historical sources (
“no portrait, no representation of their workshops, no writing describing their working methods, their commercial practices or their accounts”
), one of the most vibrant testimonies on this mecca of violin making…
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