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	The Messiah
		Handel's oratorio Messiah is his most famous work (approached only by his Water Music) and remains a firm favourite with concert goers to this day.
		In just 21 days, the Messiah was complete, and it was first performed at a charity concert in Dublin on 8th April.
		Messiah in the sense of a religious leader.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Messiah.html (243 words)

	Messiah Stradivarius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Messiah Strad (also known as Le Messie) is a violin made by luthier Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy in 1716.
		The Messiah remained in the Stradivarius workshop until his death in 1737.
		The Messiah eventually was bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Messiah_Stradivarius (239 words)

	Antonius Stradivarius Violin
		The 'Messiah Violin' by Antonius Stradivarius The âMessiahâ violin made by Antonius Stradivarius in Cremona, Italy in 1716 is considered by many people to be the consumate violin.
		Therefore, the presence of a Stradivarius label in a violin has no bearing on whether the instrument is...
		This antique violin is marked Antonius Stradivarius Cremonenfis Faciebet Anno 17 and measures 25.5" in length.It does have a front side separation as is common with old...
	hober.com /antonius-stradivarius-violin.html (194 words)

	Newswise
		A University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues used tree ring records to accurately date the wood used in a famous violin purported to be made by Stradivarius and showed that the wood was hewn during the violin maker's lifetime.
		The violin in question bears the name Messiah and is believed to be one of the instruments made by the famous violin maker Antonio Stradivarius.
		They were able to determine, by comparing the Messiah to the Arhcinto and the Archinto to the tree ring chronologies, that the wood in the Messiah dates back to 1686 -- during the lifetime of Stradivarius.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/?id=VIOLIN.UAR (522 words)

	Messiah - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Messiah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Christians believe that the Messiah came in the person of Jesus, and hence called him the Christ, meaning ‘anointed one’.
		There is a minor Jewish tradition that the Messiah will come when all Jews on earth observe the Sabbath for two consecutive Saturdays.
		Oratorio by George Handel (words selected from the Bible by Charles Jennens), performed at the Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin, on 13 April 1742; the first performance in England was at Covent Garden, London, on 23 March 1743.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Messiah (343 words)

	Nice Weather for Some Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stradivarius violins may sound unique due to the density of their wood as a result of climate change.
		Stradivarius is believed to have made more than 1100 instruments during his lifetime.
		He analyzed the tree rings in one of Stradivarius's most famous instruments, the "Messiah" violin to confirm that it was made from wood grown in that era.
	www.acfnewsource.org /cgi-bin/printer.cgi?666 (679 words)

	Stradivarius instruments today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stradivarius would have intended for his violins to have a smaller base-bar than what is used today, and in “keeping with the style”, many Strad owners have taken their violins into repairmen to have a new bass-bar inserted.
		Many violin makers today claim to be better than Stradivarius, and in tests where modern violins and Stradivarius violins are played behind a screen, often the modern violin is voted the better sounding of the two, and this supposedly earns the title “better than Stradivarius” for the maker of the modern violin.
		Stradivarius violins, despite their modern mistreatment, continue to have “that quality of greatness which cannot be recreated today any more than an old master painting.”
	axe.acadiau.ca /~067013l/stradivarius_instruments_today.htm (376 words)

	The Messiah Violin by Antonius Stradivarius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The “Messiah” violin made by Antonius Stradivarius in Cremona, Italy in 1716 is considered by many people to be the consumate violin.
		The Messiah violin remained unused in the Stradivarius workshop until the death of Antonius Stradivarius in 1737.
		Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume of Paris purchased the Messiah Stradivarius violin, and the rest of Tarisio’s collection, upon Tarisio’s death in 1854.
	www.feinviolins.com /messiah_strad.html (177 words)

	The Secrets of Musical Sound
		Stradivarius instruments, along with their counterparts from Cremona, are held in awe some 300 years after their creation, the source of their unduplicated sound still a mystery.
		He believes that the secret is one unknown to Stradivarius himself; it a slimy fungus that grew on the wood he used.
		He claims that the Cremona school had their wood cut in the winter and floated along the waterways to the lumber mills downstream to be cut and dried in the spring.
	www.flatrock.org.nz /topics/society_culture/fiddling_around_the_lab.htm (4641 words)

	Antonius Stradivarius Violin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Messiah violin remained unused in the Stradivarius workshop until the death of Antonius Stradivarius in.
		Stradivarius structured his violin making workshop so that six to ten of his apprentices and master artisans worked precisely to his violin forms.
		The violin is in good condition overall with two burn marks on the edge of the open area and the neck is separated at the seam probably from dryness.
	www.shop4buyer.info /antonius-stradivarius-violin.html (947 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Stradivarius' sound 'due to Sun'
		Reduced solar activity in the 17th Century may be the reason for the perfect sound of Stradivarius violins.
		Stradivari is responsible for crafting the most celebrated violin in the world: "The Messiah" in 1716.
		The popular belief is that the Cremonese artisans of the late 17th to 18th Centuries had a "secret ingredient" (or undocumented technique) that gave the instruments their famed sound.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3323259.stm (523 words)

	Cozio.com: violin by Antonio Stradivari, 1716 (Messiah; le Messie, Salabue)
		Salabue kept the 'Messiah' until 1827, when he sold it to Luigi Tarisio, a fascinating character who, from small beginnings, built up an important business dealing in violins.
		The thickness pattern on the back of the Messiah violin is almost identical to that of the Cremonese violin, including asymmetrical center of thickness points located more than 30 mm left of center.
		They were able to determine, by comparing the Messiah to the Archinto and the Archinto to the tree ring chronologies, that the wood in the Messiah dates back to 1686 -- during the lifetime of Stradivarius.
	www.cozio.com /Instrument.aspx?id=111 (1596 words)

	classical music - andante - london's royal academy of music launches urgent fundraising campaign to keep famed 'viotti' ...
		There in the cavernous surroundings vacated by Louis XIV for the splendour of Versailles, three reputations were to be made: his own as a musician; that of the violin as a virtuoso solo concert instrument, and the name of its maker, Antonio Stradivari.
		The Viotti is on a par with the "Messiah", or Le Messie, Stradivarius in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which, the conditions of its bequest state, must never be played.
		The Viotti Stradivarius was sold in Paris for 3,816 francs, the equivalent of Â£10,000 today.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25212 (1992 words)

	Violins/Fiddles: Stradivarius
		Interestingly, in May 2004, an original 17th Century Stradivarius Cello was stolen...and its value was estimated to be at 3.5 million...
		Today, on average, a Stradivarius will bring from $25,000.00 to $200,000.00 in value...a rarer specimen, in fine condition, could bring substantially more.
		Antonio Stradivari, maker of Stradivarius violins, is probably the most famous violin maker ever.
	www.folkofthewood.com /page5010.htm (543 words)

	Antonius Stradivarius \| Violins
		His instruments are recognized by their inscription in Latin: Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno(Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, made in the year.).
		"The'Messiah Violin' by Antonius Stradivarius The “Messiah” violin made by Antonius Stradivarius in Cremona, Italy in 1716 is considered by many people to be the consumate violin.
		It is generally acknowledged that his finest instruments were manufactured from 1698 to 1725.
	violins.wiskeet.org /antonius-stradivarius.html (307 words)

	Sicilian Culture: News: "The Messiah" Under Goes Rigorous Analyis
		Housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, the violin is said to be worth $15 million to $20 million.
		The scientists counted 109 rings in the violin's wood, he said, noting that one of the measures of a quality violin is ``how straight their grain is, the thickness of the rings and the density of the wood.''
		While Grissino-Mayer can't say for sure the violin is a Stradivarius, he was impressed.
	www.sicilianculture.com /news/stradivarius.htm (535 words)

	True Messiah - 08 April 2000 - New Scientist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		THE Stradivarius in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum is 300 years old—despite looking as good as new.
		The violin's pristine condition and uncertainties about its provenance had led some to suggest that it is a mid-19th century fake.
		But as he allowed no one to see or hear it, musicians dubbed it the Messiah because, as one violinist put it: "One always waits—and he never appears." When Tarisio died in poverty in 1855, no one could be sure that the instrument that surfaced was the strad.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg16622333.500-true-messiah.html (268 words)

	Messiah (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Messiah College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grantham, PA Messiah (company)
		Messiah (Handel), an oratorio by George Frideric Handel
		Messiah XXI - The Young Messiah - a modern adaptation of Handel's Messiah
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Messiah (143 words)

	bookofjoe: 'I don't consider it my violin. Rather, I am its violinist; I am passing through its life.'
		One of them, known as the Messiah, a violin with a magnificent tiger-striped pattern on its back, was found in Stradivari's studio when he died in 1737.
		A century later, it was in the hands of Luigi Tarisio, a peasant's son who, despite his humble background, was then in Paris telling the leading instrument-makers of the day, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and his son-in-law, Delphin Alard, about the existence of a perfect Stradivarius from the master's golden age.
		There, in addition to five other masterpieces, he found the Messiah, which today is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, where it is the only instrument to have its own showcase.
	www.bookofjoe.com /2004/09/_lord_of_the_st.html (726 words)

	University of Arkansas - Daily Headlines
		FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues used tree ring records to accurately date the wood used in a famous violin purported to be made by Stradivarius and showed that the wood was hewn during the violin maker's lifetime.
		The controversy over the violin's origin escalated as a British violin maker and tree ring researcher dated the instrument to the 1680s, while a German tree ring expert put the date in the late 1730s - too late to be an authentic Stradivarius.
		They were able to determine, by comparing the Messiah to the Arhcinto and the Archinto to the tree ring chronologies, that the wood in the Messiah dates back to 1686 - during the lifetime of Stradivarius.
	dailyheadlines.uark.edu /2541.htm (484 words)

	It's the real thing - 17 November 2001 - New Scientist
		Stradivarius could have made the world's most famous violin, known as the Messiah.
		A photo of the £10 million fiddle had suggested the wood from which the violin was made was growing long after the Italian craftsman had died in 1737, making it a clever fake.
		But last week, Henri Grissino-Mayer of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his team of dendrochronologists told the Violin Society of America convention that tree rings show the wood was hewn at least 50 years before Stradivarius died.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg17223171.200-its-the-real-thing.html (139 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2004051177
		As for the violin’s connection with Viotti, Europe’s most influential violinist at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the program had this to say: “The Viotti Stradivarius of 1709 was used by Viotti until his death, when it was sold in Paris with other instruments in his possession.
		The ‘Marie Hall’ ex Viotti Stradivarius is said to have been Viotti’s favorite instrument and is reputed to be the instrument he used when he first visited Paris.
		The Khevenhüller Stradivarius was made in 1733, a late masterpiece.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/enhancements/fy0618/2004051177-s.html (2341 words)

	CMIM - Violon 2006
		As for the great Stradivarius, whether his varnish is red or yellow, he is always bathed in light and enveloped in gold.
		More than mere instruments, Stradivarius violins have become works of art for investors, and are bought and sold as such.
		Failing this, many of these instruments will end up in atmospherically controlled vaults or in museums, as has the “Messiah” Stradivarius, valued at $20 million, an instrument in perfect condition due to the fact that it has never been touched by a musician.
	www.concoursmontreal.ca /violon2006/en/reportages/grandsViolon2.asp (783 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Canadian music teacher's violin fetches $1.4M at auction
		The Stradivarius violin owned by a musician who lived and worked in Canada for 40 years sold over the weekend for over $1.4 million US at a Boston auction.
		The violin was the property of the great Hungarian-born musician Lorand Fenyves, who taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario and the Banff Centre for the Arts.
		Stradivarius violins have been known to pick up names to distinguish them from others created by master violin maker Antonio Stradivari and his family.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/10/17/fenyves-strad-auction.html (1025 words)

	Mold Stradivarius Violin Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Like her grandfather, Jennifer was interested in fiddles at a young age.
		Authenticated the world's most venerated Stradivarius violin, known as the messiah, in.
		C bouts are then attached with glue to the violin mold and clamped into place 4.
	www.violininvestments.com /mold-stradivarius-violin.html (372 words)

	Alcuin and Flutterby: Private collection
		There is a second pair of false teeth in his cheese soufflé.
		This man is not the promised messiah either.
		Epiphanies of this kind illustrate how difficult it can be to determine the exact size of God in becquerels per cubic light year.
	alcuinbramerton.blogspot.com /2005/04/private-collection.html (161 words)

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