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Scan 108
Chats on violins, 1905
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1of any of his famous instruments, belongs to Herr Jan Kubelik. Those who have heard these two great artists play, will agree, I am sure, that Strad could make a fine fiddle outside that most notable period which commenced in 1690 and ended about 1722.
3The great fiddle-maker died in 1737 (but a few months after his second wife), and was buried with her in the vault which he purchased from the Villani family in 1729.
5The following is the record of his death, extracted from the Parish Register of St Matteo:
7"In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven, on the nineteenth day of the month of December, Signor Antonio Stradivari, a widower aged about ninety-five years, having died yesterday, fortified by the holy Sacraments and comforted by prayers for his soul until the moment he expired. I, Domenico Antonio Stancari, Parish Priest of this Church of St Matteo, have escorted to-day his corpse with funeral pomp to the Church of the very Reverend Fathers of St Domenico in Cremona, where he was buried."
9This Church of St Domenico and the
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