The Secrets, Lives and Violins of the Great Cremonese Makers 1505 – 1744 was a conference at the National Music Museum in South Dakota to celebrate five hundred years since the presumed birthdate of Andrea Amati, the father of Cremonese violin making. I was delighted to be invited by the museum to give a lecture on the enduring market for Cremonese instruments outside of Italy in the eighteenth century.
Essays on Cremona
The Marsyas Paradox and its contribution to the origin of the violin.
From the late medieval period and right the way through the Renaissance we see an abundance of images of Apollo and Orpheus playing the lyre,
August 19, 2025
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