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File: Pablo Picasso, 1913, Violin Hanging on the Wall, oil, spackle with sand, enamel, and charcoal on canvas, 65 x 46 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Berne.jpg
Augusto Pollastri (11 March 1877, in Bologna – 9 November 1927, in Bologna) was an Italian violin maker, older brother to Gaetano Pollastri. Started his career as an apprentice in Raffaele Fiorini's studio. Augusto's father was a miller and an amateur musician.
An E. H. Roth violin, Guarneri copy, Markneukirchen 1930 It was a policy of the Roth workshop in the days of Ernst Heinrich I to manufacture different grades of instruments for different budgets. For this reason, but also due to the size of the workshop's production and the many decades of its operation, the quality of Roth violins varies ...
While still a student, Vinnikov won First Prize at the USSR National Violin Competition in 1965 (ex aequo with Viktor Tretiakov). Vinnikov was also one of the prizewinners of both the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the 1971 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, and won First Prize at the 1967 George Enescu ...
Märchenbilder or Fairy Tale Pictures, for Piano and Viola, Op. 113, was written by Robert Schumann in March 1851. The work is dedicated to the German violinist and conductor Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski. It consists of four character pieces and is an original composition featuring the viola from the Romantic period.
The 42 études ou caprices ("42 études or capriccios") for solo violin were composed by Rodolphe Kreutzer around 1796. While Kreutzer was a prolific composer with some 50 stage works and dozens of other pieces to his credit, he is best known as a pedagogue.
The violin has been meticulously maintained and is considered to be in great condition. Without cracks and having never required patching, it is an excellent example of various principles of standing waves in string instruments. Its initial craftsmanship and resulting sound, in addition to its well-documented provenance and careful maintenance ...
Maggini violin made circe 1610 Giovanni Paolo Maggini (c. 1580 - c. 1630), was a luthier born in Botticino ( Brescia ), Republic of Venice . Maggini was a pupil of the most important violin maker of the Brescian school, Gasparo da Salò .