Guarnerius
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I’ll bet you a 1734 Guarnerius once owned by Bronislaw Huberman that you can’t find an interview or profile that doesn’t foreground some prominent mention of a certain landmark 1986 Tanglewood performance.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2021
The number of Strads and Guarnerius del Gesùs and Amatis and Bergonzis is not.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2012
Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg now plays a much more comfortable Peter Guarnerius of 1721.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2012
Again bare-kneed, and sailorcollared, Heimo Haitto tucked a Guarnerius fiddle under his beardless chin, made his bigtime U. S. debut with Ormandy and the orchestra in the plushy Academy of Music.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was not until Paganini played on a “Joseph” that the taste of amateurs turned from the sweetness of the Amati and the Stradivarius violins in favour of the robuster tone of the Joseph Guarnerius.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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