Stradivarian Museum (Museo Stradivariano) description and photos - Italy: Cremona (Topic)

Stradivarian Museum (Museo Stradivariano) description and photos - Italy: Cremona. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Museo Stradivariano.

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The Stradivari Museum dates back to 1893, when Cremona received from Giovanni Battista Cerani a collection of patterns, samples and various instruments that belonged to local violin makers , including the famous Antonio Stradivari. In 1895, Pietro Grulli made another donation to the museum - he donated four wooden clips, which were also made by Stradivari. But the most significant part of the museum's collection are artifacts from the collection of Ignazio Alessandro Cozio, Count of Salabue. He was born in 1755 and became the first to collect the legacy of the great violin makers. By acquiring what was left of the Stradivari workshop, Alessandro Cozio was able to satisfy his interest, which he always had in the production of violins, and soon became a major expert in this field. The collection, consisting of wooden patterns, paper sketches and various objects used in the manufacture of violins, violas, cellos and other musical instruments, was sold in 1920 by the last member of the Cozio family, the Marquise Paola Dalla Valle del Pomaro, a violin maker from Bologna Giuseppe Fiorini for 100 thousand lire. Later this priceless collection was carefully studied by Simone Fernando Sacconi, who collected information about each of the items in the collection. Fiorini was defeated in his attempt to create a violin school in Italy based on his collection, and as a result, in 1930, transferred the entire collection to Cremona. In the same year, an exhibition with the Salabue collection was inaugurated in Palazzo Affaitati. Then the museum moved to Palazzo del Arte, but in 2001 he returned to the elegant 18th century Palazzo Affaitati building.

Today, the Stradivari Museum expositions are divided into three sections. The first tells about the production of violins and violas in accordance with the traditions of the classical Cremona school, the second presents the instruments of Italian violin masters of the second half of the 19th - first half of the 20th centuries, and the third exhibits the same collection of Salabue-Fiorini with 710 artifacts from workshop of Stradivari himself.

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