These days, a Stradivarius violin can go for more than $15 million at auctions. In 2011, one sold for $15.9 million. More recently, an exceptional Stradivarius violin called the Da Vinci ...

No one can deny the extraordinary aesthetic and acoustic features of Stradivari’s violins. While their worldwide reputation for quality goes unquestioned, a consensus is unclear on the mysterious ...

1747). His training is not documented, but his early instruments show the influence of the Guarneri family as well as his contemporary, Antonio Stradivari. At one time it was erroneously believed that ...

When Oxford's Ashmolean Museum had an exhibition of Stradivari instruments in 2013, its catalogue paid unmistakable homage to Francois's contribution: it read, "It is now recognized that what first ...

and a 1693 violin made by Antonio Stradivari owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Strad, worth millions of dollars and sent to the recording session at the MFA with a police escort, was ...

A thrilling film of the album recording made by dynamic Dutch violin virtuoso Janine Jansen and Sir Antonio Pappano, on 12 of the world's most exquisite Stradivari ...

The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...

She makes her solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall this month. María Dueñas with her 1710 Stradivarius violin, the second of the storied Italian instruments she has played in her young career ...

1737 Antonio Stradivari, the most renowned violin-maker in history, dies in Cremona, Italy. He made about 1 200 violins of great quality, of which half still survive. There is evidence that the ...

By bringing in voices from across the country and world, Duke Arts gives Duke students the chance to broaden their horizons, ...