The Anoniazzi Influence Gaetano Antoniazzi, pupil of Enrico and Giuseppe Ceruti, brought the Cremonese tradition of his teachers to Milan in 1870. Gaetano Antoniazzi, along with his sons Riccardo and Romeo, trained Leandro Bisiach, and together with the Antoniazzis, Bisiach influenced the creation of a workshop environment that was to dominate early 20th Century Italian violinmaking. Departing […]
Enlivening History Stradivari's Genius by Toby Faber
Summer
Toby Faber’s Stradivari’s Genius makes a good read. The book seems destined to entice broader audiences into this normally arcane subject much the way the films The Red Violin and Amadeus do. But where those films make no attempt at or pretense to historical factuality, Stradivari’s Genius is based on considerable research on the part […]
A Fine Addition: Stefano Scarampella by Eric Blot
Winter
Within the last few years a number of large-scale works on violin makers have been published, and so it may be with some surprise that a new study of the makers of the Scarampella family appears in a relatively “modest” 143-page publication. The unassuming title—Stefano Scarampella—belies a detailed and splendid review of the lives and […]
Vivaldi, Maestro di Choro The Years 1713-1717
Fall
Editor’s note: In our last issue Charles Beare introduced the world to Micky White’s exciting research on Vivaldi and the Hospedale della Pietà in Venice, which Vivaldi led for a time. When Micky White heard how enthusiastically our readers responded, she quickly agreed to give us more, and Soundpost Online sincerely thanks her for this […]
Vienna to Auschwitz A Biography of Alma Rosé
Winter
Instead of the whole, the consummated, of which I dreamed, I leave patchwork, the incomplete, as man is fated to do…I meant well and aimed at high goals. Not always could my efforts be crowned with success… But I have always given my all and have subordinated my person to the cause, my inclinations to […]