Golden strings
By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2017-10-16 07:50
Chinese musician Gao Can will soon play a 400-year-old violin used to premiere Beethoven's work. Chen Nan reports.
In 1617, the Amatis, a celebrated Italian family of violin makers, crafted a violin, which was later owned by the noble Lobkowicz family.
The Czech family was a patron of Ludwig van Beethoven at the prime of his career. When the composer's String Quartets, Op 18 was published in 1810, the violin was used for the composition's premiere.
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