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The Cholmondeley (/ ˈ tʃ ʌ m l i / CHUM-lee) is the name of a Stradivarius cello (violin) that was made in Cremona, Italy, by Antonio Stradivari around 1698. It holds the record as the world's most valuable cello. At an auction at Sotheby's in London on 22 June 1988 it fetched the highest auction price ever at £682,000 [1] (US$ 1.2 million ...
The sale price of $132,000 [25] was the highest price ever paid at auction for a violin by living makers. The June 2022 sale of the 1714 'da Vinci, ex-Seidel' Stradivari achieved USD $15.34 million (£12.29 million) in their New York auction.
Barjansky was the previous owner when the Cremonese cello came up for auction at Sotheby's in 1983. It sold for a record price to British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber whose previous instrument was a Guadagnini of the 1700s.
The cello section of the orchestra of the Munich University of Applied Sciences is shown here. Cellos are part of the standard symphony orchestra, which usually includes eight to twelve cellists. The cello section, in standard orchestral seating, is located on stage left (the audience's right) in the front, opposite the first violin section.
This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
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Cadenzas for two cello concertos in D major and C major by Haydn (1982) Patrick van Deurzen. Monologue (2011) David Diamond. Sonata for Violoncello Alone (1959) Friedhelm Dohl. Fantasie - Kadenz; Klezmeriana for solo cello (1983) Franco Donatoni. Lame (1982) Friedrich Dotzauer. 113 Etudes for Cello; John Downey. Lydian Suite (1975) Zsolt Durkó ...
His first encounter with a cello-like instrument was from witnessing a local travelling Catalan musician, who played a cello-strung broom handle. Upon request, his father built him a crude cello, using a gourd as a sound-box. When Casals was 11 years old, he first heard the real cello performed by a group of traveling musicians, and decided to ...