Stradivari, ANTONIO, the famed violin-maker of Cremona, lived 1649-1737. He was the pupil of Nicholas Amati, and carried the Cremona type of violin to its highest perfection. See VIOLIN; and Life by Horace Petherick (1900).
Stradivari, ANTONIO
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