The Adventures of a Cello

Foreword. The Adventures of a Cello and the Stories and Memories of Its Happy Owner - Alvaro Mutis Introduction. The Origin and Purpose of This Book Part One. A Brief History of Violin Making 1. Observations on the Origin of Violins and Cellos; 2. Amati, Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesu, and the Great Italian Violin Makers Part Two. The Adventures of a Stradivari Cello from 1720 to the Present 3. The Adventures of a Stradivari Cello: From Cremona in 1720 to New York in 1979; 4. A Brief Autobiographical Note; 5. Around the World with the Piatti; 6. My Relationship with the Music and Musicians of Latin America, Spain, and Portugal Part Three. A Brief History of Music for Cello from the Time of Stradivari to the Present 7. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 8. From Beethoven to the End of the Nineteenth Century; 9. The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Cello Comes of Age