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Stradivari in Paris

Stradivari in Paris

by | May 9, 2019 | Articles, By JC

Joseph Curtin, adapted from an article in The Strad, June 2017 “How comes it then that the violins are so unlike each other? How comes it that one sounds powerful and the other weak?” This was Leopold Mozart in his 1756 treatise on violin playing. Having expressed...
Maud Powell’s Violin

Maud Powell’s Violin

by | May 1, 2016 | Articles, By JC

Joseph Curtin, The Strad, May 2016 Maud Powell (1867–1920) and George Gemünder (1816–99) were trailblazing figures – she the first American-born violinist to be recognised internationally as an artist of the first rank, he a German-born immigrant who brought top-level...