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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1chased in Madrid about thirty years since by Ole Bull. The Viola belonging to this quatuor has lost its ivory work, a blemish which is to be regretted. He also made about this period some very small Violins with similar designs, instruments evidently made to order.
3"On the 7th of August of the same year, 1687, the nobleman Don Agostino Daria, General-in-chief of the Spanish Cavalry in Lombardy, while he was residing in Cremona, obtained from him a Violoncello."
5We now reach the year 1690, in connection with which Arisi has supplied information of singular interest. He says: "On the 19th of September, 1690, Stradivari received the following letter from the Marquis Bartolomeo Ariberti,* a Cremonese
7* The Marquis Ariberti was born in 1666, and died 1724. He was an elegant writer, and a member of several literary academies. He was for some time in Tuscany. Upon returning to Cremona, where he settled, he built in 1687, at his own expense, a theatre called after his name, Ariberti. He, being a passionate lover of music, was anxious to have in his own establishment (the theatre adjoining his palace) a place of amusement for himself and his family. About the year 1710 he gave up the building to a religious brotherhood, and a church was built on the site, and used until 1798, when the brotherhood was suppressed, and, by a singular coincidence, the building was bought in 1801 by a society of dramatic authors, and again opened as a theatre, which still exists, and is called Teatro Filodrammatico. The Marquis Ariberti was appointed by Joseph I., Emperor of Austria, to the title of Lieutenant-Marshall; he was a member of the High Council of State in Milan. He was buried in the church, which, as above mentioned, was afterwards used as a theatre. (See Lancetti, "Biografia Cremonese," 1 vol., Milano, 1819.)
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