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Eugène Ysaÿe: instruments, repertoire and recordings

2021-09-21T13:30:00

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Read about the tools of the great violinist’s trade in this extract from January 2011

The following is an extract from the article ’Great Violinists: Eugène Ysaÿe’ which featured in the January 2011 issue. To read the full article, click here

INSTRUMENTS

Ysaÿe’s first violin of note was a c.1754 Guadagnini (see The Strad Calendar, 2010), procured from a Hamburg pawnbroker, but in 1896 he persuaded a pupil to take it in exchange for her Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ (plus some money to make up the difference in value; she also gained a husband when she married his brother Théophile).

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