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The adventures of a cello / Carlos Prieto ; translated by Elena C. Murray ; foreword by Álvaro Mutis.

by Prieto, Carlos, 1937-

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Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

Prieto, Carlos, 1937-

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip066/2006001346.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006001346-d.html

0292713223 (cloth : alk. paper)

xv, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

1st University of Texas Press ed.

A brief history of violin making. Observations on the origin of violins and cellos ; Amati, Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù, and the great Italian violin makers -- The adventures of a Stradivari cello from 1720 to the present. The adventures of a Stradivari cello : from Cremona in 1720 to New York in 1979 ; A brief autobiographical note ; Around the world with the Piatti ; My relationship with the music and musicians of Latin America, Spain, and Portugal -- A brief history of music for cello from the time of Stradivari to the present. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; From Beethoven to the end of the nineteenth century ; The twentieth and twenty-first centuries : the cello comes of age.

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