REPRINTS AND NEW EDITIONS
Violins and Violinists. By Franz Farga. Translated. With a chapter on English violin-makers by E. W. Lavender.’’232 pp. Index. 80 plate's. This is a second, revised and enlarged, edition of a book that was first .published : in Zurich in 1940.. The original English edition was pub- , Ushed in .1950, and there ; were second and third impresl along in 1951 and 1955. These i frequent republications of a > book that might be expected .to have a limited appeal . speak of a regard it holds i among violinists and violin- . lovers. The history .of the . instrument is traced through ■ the centuries of its technical . and artistic development to > its peak of perfection in the i workshops of Cremona. : Drawings, and plates Ulusi trate the evolution of the rio- ! lin’s construction. A. sOeond s part of the book discusses the ■ various schools tf music and players, and describes the > greatest The authority of the t book is increased by a really t wonderful selection of plates - illustrating the instrument > and its players over several > centuries.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32032, 5 July 1969, Page 4
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