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Antonietta a novel

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  • ""She was built by Antonio Stradivari, who named her after the beautiful woman who was the inspiration of his later years ... She is Antonietta, a magnificent violin, and in this masterpiece of historical imagination and stylistic flair, John Hersey traces her progress and influence upon owners, musicians, and composers alike."--Page 4 of cover."
  • ""John Hersey's brilliantly inventive novel is the romantic odyssey of a Stradivarius violin from its creation three hundred years ago in Cremona through its many adventures in the hands of the famous and infamous ... It begins in 1699 as the great Stradivari, in love at fifty-five, fashions a magnificent instrument and names it Antonietta, after the object of his desire. It ends on Martha's Vineyard with a tone-deaf financier purchasing Antonietta to improve his image as a person of culture. In the intervening years--a sparkling variety of incidents--we see Stradivari's bewitching violin affecting the lives of: the young Mozart in Paris ... the fiercely ambitious Berlioz ... and Stravinsky ... The composers come alive in all their idiosyncrasies, and Antonietta becomes a compelling presence--giving voice to the changing character, and eternal art, of music over the centuries.""

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  • "Musical fiction"@en
  • "Musical fiction"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Ant'oniet'a : Sosŏl Sŭtŭradibari"
  • "Ant'oniet'a = Antonietta : sosŏl st'ŭratipari"
  • "Antonietta : a novel"
  • "Antonietta Roman"
  • "Ant'oniet'a"
  • "Antonietta a novel"@en
  • "Antonietta"
  • "Antonietta : Roman"
  • "Antonietta : vida y amores de un stradivarius"@es
  • "Antonietta : vida y amores de un stradivarius"

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