The 1731 "Heifetz, Piel" Stradivari violin that was owned for nearly 30 years by 20th century violin legend Jascha Heifetz ...

A violin handcrafted in 1714 by Antonio Stradivari, the famous Italian luthier, has been sold for $11.25 million by Boston’s New England Conservatory (NEC) at a Sotheby’s auction. The music ...

The craftsman’s name is still known around the world more than 300 years later, though his life story remains something of a mystery: Antonio Stradivari, maker of incomparable violins ...

The world’s reigning virtuoso violinist won’t be playing a concerto or a proper recital when he returns to the Lied Center on ...

Leaping violin notes give a sense of people stamping and chattering teeth are represented by repeated fast tremulo notes of the solo violon. Antonio Vivaldi was taught to play the violin by his ...

Andrea Amati (1505-1577) crystalised the design and manufacture of the violin at Cremona in Italy for ever after. All the makers after him, including Antonio Stardivari, have simply evolved the ...

Antonio Vivaldi was taught to play the violin by his father and they regularly performed together in Venice. After training as a priest Vivaldi soon switched to teaching the violin to girls at an ...