Francesco Ruggieri (1620-c. 1695) was the first and greatest of a family of violin makers working at Cremona, Italy. A pupil of Nicolo Amati, he patterned his instruments, with some modifications, ...

The violin will be played by an award-winning teenager ... It has been in Japan exactly 100 years and has a rich history. The instrument belonged to a Russian aristocrat who fled the Russian ...

The Basel Historical Museum (HMB) has investigated the provenance of a supposedly valuable violin, shedding light on whether ...

Andrea Amati (1505-1577) crystalised the design and manufacture of the violin at Cremona in Italy for ever after. All the makers after him, including Antonio Stardivari, have simply evolved the ...

Lewis grew up to become a wealthy music teacher and accomplished musician. The violin’s first female heir in more than 100 ...

Sarah Gillis recently returned from a Space-X mission and spent Wednesday with students at her old school in Boulder.

Black Violin, the duo raised on a mix of Mozart and hip-hop modernity, have been remixing and reimagining music history for ...