Precious Instruments, Illustrious Names

Lutherie and Music between Seventeenth and Twentieth centuries in Europe

A unique event of its kind that describes and connects four centuries of stringed-instrument making and collecting, of music and musicians, of nobility and patronage, anhistorical and cultural journey through the 17th to the 20th centuries, in which the protagonists are thirty invaluable musical instruments,...

A cura di Giovanni Accornero
2018, pp. 408
ISBN: 8887618198
€ 250,00

The Guitar, Paris 1650-1950

ADDENDUM

The purpose of this book is to provide an important update of the first volume of the series fully devoted to the guitars manufactured in Paris between 1650 and 1950. By Daniel Sinier and Françoise de Ridder, the addendum is full of new precious information focusing on the work of Voboam, Pons...

Sinier de Ridder
2015, pp. 80
ISBN: 8887618181
€ 120,00

Violin Making

Masters of the Piedmontese school

"Violin Making, Masters of the Piedmontese school" is the title of the collateral exhibition of music instruments that took place in Turin, simultaneously with the first review of Torino Antiquaria 2013, an important meeting of merchants and collectors of antiques. This is a great and fitting tribute...

Giovanni Accornero
2013, pp. 80
ISBN: 8887618174
€ 120,00

The Guitar, Mirecourt les provinces françaises

Tome II

After the success of “La Guitare - Paris 1650-1950”, we are glad to announce the second volume of this collection devoted to “Mirecourt, les provinces françaises”. Written by Daniel Sinier and Françoise de Ridder, the book presents and analyzes instruments made by...

Sinier de Ridder
2011, pp. 224
ISBN: 8887618167
€ 220,00

Getting to know violin making, Unpublished masterpieces from Lucci-Marchini Archive

Lombardia e Piemonte - Vol. II

With the publication of Volume II, Edizioni Il Salabue enriches the collection “Getting to know Violin making, Unpublished masterpieces from the Lucci-Marchini Archive”. This series was born thanks to an extraordinary family archives, the Lucci-Marchini collection. This important publishing...

Raffaella Lucci, Rodolfo Marchini
2010, pp. 320
ISBN: 8887618143
€ 340,00

G. B. Guadagnini and those he inspired in the twentieth century

A new work by Edizioni Il Salabue with contents that will be of undoubted interest for violin makers, collectors, dealers and enthusiasts. A book devoted to Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. At "Edizioni Il Salabue" we had intended for a long time to enrich our catalogue by devoting a book to the great...

Giovanni Accornero, Ivan Epicoco, Eraldo Guerci
2008, pp. 240
ISBN: 8887618105
€ 260,00

The Guitar: Four centuries of Masterpieces

An exhibition dedicated entirely to the guitar and the catalogue that documents the rich material presented. This is the first time that an exhibition has proposed such a wealth of masterpieces: seventy instruments, covering the period from the early seventeenth century to the second half of the...

Giovanni Accornero, Ivan Epicoco, Eraldo Guerci
2008, pp. 272
ISBN: 8887618136
€ 270,00

The Guitar, Paris 1650-1950

Tome I

At Edizioni Il Salabue we always focuse on stringed instruments, including plucked stringed instruments. Clearly in this field it is the guitar that represents the fundamental test-bench for a complex and in-depth work like this book. Written by Daniel Sinier and Françoise de Ridder, it is the...

Sinier de Ridder
2007, pp. 224
ISBN: 8887618097
€ 220,00

Auction Yearbook of Bowed Instruments, 2005

The publication of the results of auctions provides a convenient and immediate consultation tool for those working in the sector. The volumes are of immediate and simple consultation. The works are listed by maker; their names are set into the margin and highlighted by printed character. Abbreviations...

Claudio Amighetti
2007, pp. 256
ISBN: 8887618112
€ 50,00

Auction Yearbook of Bowed Instruments, 2006

Publication of the results of auctions provides a convenient and immediate consultation tool for those working in the sector. The volumes are of immediate and simple consultation. The works are listed by maker; their names are set into the margin and highlighted by printed character. Abbreviations...

Claudio Amighetti
2007, pp. 220
ISBN: 8887618129
€ 60,00

Getting to know violin making, Unpublished masterpieces from Lucci-Marchini Archive

Campania e Lazio - Vol. I

With this book, Il Salabue begins an important new editorial project. It originated from a unique opportunity: that offered by an extraordinary family archive, the Lucci-Marchini Fund. Over more than half a century, numerous musicians, dealers, collectors and enthusiasts have passed through the laboratory...

Raffaella Lucci, Rodolfo Marchini
2006, pp. 254
ISBN: 8887618089
€ 320,00

Count Cozio of Salabue

Violin Making and Collecting in Piedmont

Anyone interested in violin making history knows that Count Cozio of Salabue played a decisive role in preserving and promoting the old violin making traditions. In fact, we must be grateful to Ignazio Alessandro Cozio if we can admire the tools and drawings used by Antonio Stradivari, and if we...

Giovanni Accornero, Ivan Epicoco, Eraldo Guerci
2005, pp. 168
ISBN: 8887618070
€ 190,00

Mauro Giuliani

Guitar virtuoso: his hearly life and final decline

Any contribution that sheds new light onto the biography of Mauro Giuliani is always greeted with great interest. Nicola Giuliani dug through libraries and archives in search of new data and information on his famous forebear, for the first time tracing a family tree. What guitarist in Italy's great...

Nicola Giuliani
2005, pp. 80
ISBN: 8887618062
€ 60,00 € 42,00

The Guarneri family and 20th-century Italian copies

In handbooks of the history of music, the name Guarneri is linked to the Cannone, the mythical instrument that belonged to Niccolò Paganini and which he subsequently donated to the City of Genoa, where it is still kept. In some cases also his dualism with Stradivari is mentioned but nothing more.

Artemio Versari
2004, pp. 68
ISBN: 8887618054
€ 80,00

Three centuries of Italian Violin Making

The volume presents a selected panorama of instruments made by some of the most important and representative violin makers working during three centuries' history of Italian violin making. Overall, twenty-four bowed stringed instruments are published, subdivided into three periods. Each instrument...

Artemio Versari
2003, pp. 68
ISBN: 8887618046
€ 80,00

Rosa sonora

Esposizione di chitarre, XVII - XX secolo

An antique musical instrument is not simply a precious testimony of a noble craftsman of the past. It is also a very useful subject of investigations that can help us to understand the true nature of the music that was played on it and by means of it. Rosa sonora contains a range of instruments that...

Giovanni Accornero
2003, pp. 64
ISBN: 00014
€ 16,00

Modern Violin Making in the Emilia-Romagna Region

Modern Violin Making in the Emilia-Romagna Region is the first important book of information and consultation for violin makers, dealers, collectors and enthusiasts. The work presents a wide panorama of instruments made both by the most famous violin makers of the period and by those who are less...

Artemio Versari
2002, pp. 300
ISBN: 888761802X
€ 300,00

Piedmontese Violin Making, Annibale Fagnola

Annibalotto Fagnola, Stefano Vittorio Fasciolo, Riccardo Genovese

Annibale Fagnola. Part of a much wider project that will examine in depth the modern Liuteria piemontese school, this first monograph is dedicated to Annibale Fagnola. Far from being a typical violin maker of his time, he was a dedicated craftsman but also skilled at managing the more commercial aspects...

Giovanni Accornero, Ivan Epicoco, Eraldo Guerci
1999, pp. 256
ISBN: 8887618003
€ 250,00