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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...
The Indianapolis Experiment

The Indianapolis Experiment

by | Nov 1, 2012 | Articles, By JC

Joseph Curtin, The Strad, November 2012 Two years before Guadagnini’s death in 1786, King Louis XVI of France appointed a committee directed by Benjamin Franklin to investigate Franz Mesmer’s claims for the healing powers of “animal magnetism,” then being...