The Adventures of a Cello : : Revised Edition, with a New Epilogue / / Carlos Prieto.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Prieto, Carlos,
• TeilnehmendeR: Murray, Elena C.; Mutis, Álvaro.
• MitwirkendeR: Mutis, Álvaro,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 p.)

In 1720, Antonio Stradivari crafted an exquisite work of art—a cello known as the Piatti. Over the next three centuries of its life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and resided in Spain, Ireland, England, Italy, Germany, and the United States. In 1978, the Piatti became the m...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• foreword Th e Adventures of a Cello and the Stories and Memories of Its Happy Owner
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• introduction Th e Origin and Purpose of Th is Book
• part one A Brief History of Violin Making
• chapter 1 Observations on the Origin of Violins and Cellos
• chapter 2 Amati, Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù, and the Great Italian Violin Makers
• part two The Adventures of a Stradivari Cello from 1720 to the Present
• chapter 3 Th e Adventures of a Stradivari Cello: From Cremona in 1720 to New York in 1979
• chapter 4 A Brief Autobiographical Note
• chapter 5 Around the World with the Piatti
• chapter 6 My Relationship with the Music and Musicians of Latin America, Spain, and Portugal
• part three A Brief History of Music for the Cello from the Time of Stradivari to the Present
• chapter 7 Th e Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Chapter 8 From Beethoven to the End of the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 9 The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Cello Comes of Age
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1 Some Principal Works for Cello from the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (Excluding Ibero-America)
• Appendix 2 Some Principal Works for Cello from the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (Spain, Portugal, and Latin America)
• Appendix 3 Carlos Prieto’s Discography
• Appendix 4 Reviews of Concerts
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index