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Antonio Stradivari

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Antonio Stradivari

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Also known as Antoine Stradivari, Antonius Stradivarius, Anthony Stradivari, Antonio Stradivario, Stradivarius

Italian stringed instrument maker (1643/1649-1737)

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Antonio Stradivari was a male musical instrument maker, luthier, and guitar maker born in 1644 in Cremona. He was a student of Nicola Amati and primarily worked with the violin. Stradivari spoke, wrote, and signed in Italian. He died in Cremona on December 18, 1737.

His works are held in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée de la musique, and the Smithsonian Institution. He is described by sources including the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and The Catholic Encyclopedia.

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Person · Open Library

Works
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  • Notice of Anthony Stradivari
  • Antoine Stradivari, luthier célèbre connu sous le nom de Stradivarius

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy
Active from
1644
Active to
1737

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
11
Total plays
36

Antonio Stradivari (/ˌstrædɪˈvɑːri/, also US: /-ˈvɛəri/,[2][3][4] Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo stradiˈvaːri]; 1644 – 18 December 1737) was an Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial Strad are terms often used to refer to his instruments. It is estimated that Stradivari produced 1,116 instruments, of which 960 were violins. Around 650 instruments survived, including

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,950x

  2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,903x

  3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,984x

  4. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

    · 2022 · cited 13,914x

  5. Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis

    · 2018 · cited 11,570x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Antonio
Gender
male
Place of death
Cremona
Occupation
guitar maker
Languages spoken
Italian
Student of
Nicola Amati
Instrument
violin
Image
Copy of portrait possibly depicting Antonio Stradivari (cropped).jpg
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Commons category
Antonio Stradivari
date of death
1737-12-18
date of birth
1644-00-00
described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Commons Creator page
Antonio Stradivari
name in native language
Antonio Stradivari
has works in the collection
Smithsonian Institution
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Encyclopedic overview

Antonio Stradivari (/ˌstrædɪˈvɑːri/, also US: /-ˈvɛəri/, Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo stradiˈvaːri]; c. 1644 – 18 December 1737) was an Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial Strad are terms often used to refer to his instruments. It is estimated that Stradivari produced 1,116 instruments, of which 960 were violins. Around 650 instruments survive, including 450 to 512 violins. His instruments are considered some of the finest ever made, and are extremely valuable collector's items.

Early life

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