Research Catalog

Title

The adventures of a cello / Carlos Prieto ; translated by Elena C. Murray ; foreword by Álvaro Mutis.

Author

Prieto, Carlos, 1937-

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Murray, Elena C.

Description

xv, 350 pages : illustrations; 24 cm +

Summary

"In this book, Mr. Prieto recounts the adventurous life of his beloved "Cello Prieto," tracing its history through each of its previous owners from Stradivari in 1720 to himself. He then describes his noteworthy experiences of playing the Piatti cello, with which he has premiered some eighty compositions. In this part of their mutual story, MIT-educated Carlos Prieto gives a concise summary of his own career and his relationships with many illustrious personalities, including Igor Stravinsky, Dmitry Shostakovich, Pablo Casals, and Mstislav Rostropovich." "To make the story of his cello complete, Mr. Prieto also provides a brief history of violin making and a succinct review of cello music from Stradivari to the present. He highlights the work of composers from Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, for whose music he has long been an advocate and principal performer. Thus, The Adventures of a Cello offers not only the first biography of a musical instrument but also an inviting overview of cello music and its preeminent composers and performers."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Aventuras de un violonchelo. English

Alternative Title

Aventuras de un violonchelo.

Subjects

• Prieto, Carlos, 1937-
• Cello

Note

• Translated from the Spanish.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-336), discography (p. [311]-314), and index.

Contents

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 -- Ch. 1. Observations on the origin of violins and cellos -- Ch. 2. Amati, Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesu, and the great Italian violin makers -- Ch. 3. The adventures of a Stradivari Cello : from Cremona in 1720 to New York in 1979 -- Ch. 4. A brief autobiographical note -- Ch. 5. Around the world with the Piatti -- Ch. 6. My relationship with the music and musicians of Latin America, Spain, and Portugal -- Ch. 7. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Ch. 8. From Beethoven to the end of the nineteenth century -- Ch. 9. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries : the cello comes of age -- App. 1. Some principal works for cello from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (excluding Ibero-America) -- App. 2. Some principal works for cello from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Spain, Portugal, and Latin America) -- App. 3. Carlos Prieto's discography -- App. 4. Reviews of concerts.

ISBN

0292713223 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006001346
• 9780292713222

OCLC

• OCM63122776
• SCSB-5279578

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries