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Andrea Guarneri
Andrea Guarneri (1626; 1698, in Cremona) was an Italian luthier, musician and founder of the Casa Guarneri. He is the most important student of Nicola Amati and grandfather of one of the best luthiers, Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri, del Gesù. Biography Thought to be born in 1626 to Bartolomo Guarneri in the parish of Cremona, Italy, very little is known about Andrea Guarneri's ancestors. There are records of a wood-carver by the name of Giovanni Battista Guerine, which may have been an alternative spelling of Guarneri, who lived near the residence of Nicolò Amati in Cremona in 1632, and it is possible that Andrea Guarneri was a relation of Guerine. By 1641 the young Andrea was living with Nicolò Amati and being instructed in the art of violin making, probably working alongside Francesco Ruggieri and Antonio Stradivari who were also apprentices at the same time. In 1652, while still living in the Amati household, Andrea married Anna Maria Orcelli, daughter of Orazio Orcelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casalbuttano Ed Uniti
Casalbuttano ed Uniti ( Cremunés: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cremona in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about northwest of Cremona. Casalbuttano ed Uniti borders the following municipalities: Bordolano, Casalmorano, Castelverde, Castelvisconti, Corte de' Cortesi con Cignone, Olmeneta, Paderno Ponchielli Paderno Ponchielli ( Soresinese: ; Cremunés: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Cremona, in Lombardy, northern Italy. Before the unification of Italy in 1861, the town was known just as Paderno. After unification, the new government called ..., Pozzaglio ed Uniti. Transportation Casalbuttano has a railway station on the Treviglio–Cremona line. People * Ferruccio Ghinaglia * Ulisse Gualtieri Religion Churches * San Giorgio, Casalbuttano References External links Official website Cities and towns in Lombardy {{Cremona-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Grancino
Paolo Grancino is a 17th-century violin maker of obscure origin and unverifiable existence. He is thought to have been a student of Andrea Guarneri. Instruments which appear to have been made by him are of a recognizable "Grancino" style which also appears in the work of later Grancinos, yet they are of an earlier (1680 to 1730) and more delicate style than the well known work of Giovanni Grancino. These instruments have a fine oil varnish and a character which is clearly related to that of Andrea Guarneri. They are often labeled or attributed to one or another of the well known Cremonese Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' (Po Valley). It is the capital of the ... makers. References * Italian luthiers 17th-century Italian businesspeople {{italy-music-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Soyer
David Soyer (February 24, 1923February 25, 2010) was an American cellist. He was born in Philadelphia and began playing the piano at the age of nine. At 11, he started the cello. One of his first teachers was Diran Alexanian. Later on he studied with Emanuel Feuermann and Pablo Casals. He debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy in 1942, playing Ernest Bloch's ''Schelomo''. Chamber music was a special love of his. He was a founding member of the Guarneri Quartet in 1964 and played with them until retiring from the quartet in 2002. As a member of the Guarneri he collaborated with many of the world's most famous classical musicians, including Leonard Rose, the Budapest String Quartet, Pinchas Zukerman, and Arthur Rubinstein. He gave the New York premieres of the Solo Cello Sonatas by Zoltán Kodály and George Crumb. With David Tudor he premiered Earle Brown's Music for Cello and Piano. Before joining the quartet he played in various venues including the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Hegner
Anton Hegner (2 March 1861 – 4 December 1915) was a Danish cellist and composer. Life Hegner was born in Denmark and started his musical career as a violinist, but changed to the cello as he was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, from where he graduated in 1879. He moved to New york in 1893. He was often back in Europe, however, often playing at the various courts and concert halls around the continent. During visits to the Danish court he sometimes played together with members of the Danish, Russian and British royal families. He was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1902. See also *List of Danish composers A list of notable Danish composers: __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A *Thorvald Aagaard *Truid Aagesen * David Abell *Hans Abrahamsen *Aksel Agerby *Harald Agersnap *Georg Frederik Ferdina ... References *''This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia.'' E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelina Patti
Adelina Patti (19 February 184327 September 1919) was an Italian 19th-century opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her career in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851, and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914. Along with her near contemporaries Jenny Lind and Thérèse Tietjens, Patti remains one of the most famous sopranos in history, owing to the purity and beauty of her lyrical voice and the unmatched quality of her ''bel canto'' technique. The composer Giuseppe Verdi, writing in 1877, described her as being perhaps the finest singer who had ever lived and a "stupendous artist". Verdi's admiration for Patti's talent was shared by numerous music critics and social commentators of her era. Biography She was born Adela Juana Maria Patti, in Madrid, the youngest child of tenor Salvatore Patti (1800–1869) and soprano Caterina Barilli (died 1870). Her Italian parents were working in Spain, at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Laurie
David Laurie (b. Netherton 1833 - d. Brussels 1897) - was a distinguished 19th century violin collector (known worldwide, as good friend of J. B. Vuillaume). Born in 1833 in Netherton, Kinross-shire Scotland, he was an only son of John Laurie laird of Drunzie, Kinross-shire. He married and had six children with his first wife and then after her death married again and had twelve more children.The Reminiscences of a Fiddle Dealer by David Laurie He was an oil merchant, as well as an amateur violinist, though his passion was fiddle collecting which eventually changed to his livelihood. His personal violin was the " Alard" Stradivari of 1715, which he bought from Alard in 1876 (upon his retirement). Prior to that, in the mid-19th century the instrument was bought by a banker from Belgium in Florence and subsequently passed to J. B. Vuillaume in Paris who gave it to his son-in-law M. Delphin Alard a professor of violin at the Paris Conservatory. Mr. Laurie once was offe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hagen
William W. Hagen (born 1942) is a historian and professor of history at the University of California-Davis. Hagen's focus is on modern European history, primarily in relation to Germany and Eastern Europe. He obtained his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Starting as assistant professor in 1970he became associate professor of history in 1977 and professor of history in 1981. From 1992 to 1998, Hagen served as director of the ''UC Davis Center for History, Society, and Culture''. In 1996, he served as president of the ''Conference Group for Central European History'' (American Historical Association).Recipient of grants, including from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, where he was fellow in residence 1990-91. For fuller details, see https://hagen.faculty.ucdavis.edu/ Select bibliography * "National Solidarity and Organic Work in Prussian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daishin Kashimoto
Daishin Kashimoto (樫本 大進; ''Kashimoto Daishin''; born 27 March 1979) is a Japanese classical violinist. Since 2009, he has been the first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. Kashimoto is fluent in speaking and writing in Japanese, English and German. He married Ria Ideta, also a musician, in 2008. Early life Kashimoto was born on 27 March 1979 in London, United Kingdom. At age three, he began studying violin in Tokyo, at the inspiration of his mother, a former piano teacher. He moved to New York and was accepted at the age of seven by the pre-college division of Juilliard School as its youngest student and received the Edward John Noble Foundation Scholarship. At age 11, Kashimoto then moved to Lübeck, Germany, to study with the rigid perfectionist, Professor Zakhar Bron who helped hone his skills at the Musikhochschule Lübeck ( Lübeck Academy of Music). Desiring more musical freedom at age 20, Kashimoto moved to Freiburg to continue his studies with Professo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Rose
Kenneth Vivian Rose (15 November 1924 – 28 January 2014) was a journalist and royal biographer in the United Kingdom. The son of Ada and Jacob Rosenwige, a Bradford Jewish surgeon, Rose was educated at Repton and New College, Oxford. He served in the Welsh Guards 1943–6 and was attached to Phantom, 1945. He did a brief spell of teaching as an Assistant Master at Eton College, 1948. His journalistic career began when he joined the Editorial Staff of the '' Daily Telegraph'', a position he held from 1952 to 1960. He founded and wrote the Albany Column, 1961–97, for the '' Sunday Telegraph''. Rose was an award-winning writer, having won the prestigious Whitbread Book Award in the biography category in 1983 for his book, ''King George V''. He shared that award with Victoria Glendinning, who won for her book ''Vita''. He was appointed CBE in the 1997 New Year Honours. In April 2005, days before the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, a British tabloid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmy Verhey
Emmy Verhey (born 13 March 1949, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch violinist. Biography Verhey received her first violin lesson from her father when she was seven. Within a year, she played the Violin Concerto in A minor and the Concerto for Two Violins by Johann Sebastian Bach. Recognized as a child prodigy, she went to study at age 8 with the Austrian-born violin teacher Oskar Back. Later she studied with Herman Krebbers, Bela Dekany, Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Lucerne and David Oistrakh in Moscow. At the age of 17, she was the youngest prize winning finalist at the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. A week later Verhey graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory. The public interest for her examination was so huge that it had to take place at the Concertgebouw. Verhey has played with eminent conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Chailly, Bernard Haitink, Hans Vonk, Ed Spanjaard, Edo de Waart, Neville Marriner, Klaus Tennstedt, Jean Fournet and with fellow v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volute
A volute is a spiral, scroll-like ornament that forms the basis of the Ionic order, found in the capital of the Ionic column. It was later incorporated into Corinthian order and Composite column capitals. Four are normally to be found on an Ionic capital, eight on Composite capitals and smaller versions (sometimes called ''helix'') on the Corinthian capital. The word derives from the Latin ''voluta'' ("scroll"). It has been suggested that the ornament was inspired by the curve of a ram's horns, or perhaps was derived from the natural spiral found in the ovule of a common species of clover native to Greece. Alternatively, it may simply be of geometrical origin."Volute". ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology''. Timothy Darvill. Oxford University Press, 2002 The ornament can be seen in Renaissance and Baroque architecture and is a common decoration in furniture design, silverware and ceramics. A method of drawing the complex geometry was devised by the ancient Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamfer
A chamfer or is a transitional edge between two faces of an object. Sometimes defined as a form of bevel, it is often created at a 45° angle between two adjoining right-angled faces. Chamfers are frequently used in machining, carpentry, furniture, concrete formwork, mirrors, and to facilitate assembly of many mechanical engineering designs. Terminology In machining the word ''bevel'' is not used to refer to a chamfer. Machinists use chamfers to "ease" otherwise sharp edges, both for safety and to prevent damage to the edges. A ''chamfer'' may sometimes be regarded as a type of bevel, and the terms are often used interchangeably. In furniture-making, a lark's tongue is a chamfer which ends short of a piece in a gradual outward curve, leaving the remainder of the edge as a right angle. Chamfers may be formed in either inside or outside adjoining faces of an object or room. By comparison, a '' fillet'' is the rounding-off of an interior corner, and a ''round'' (or ''radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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