The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

Professor j. J. Mcclellan will return
home from his eastern "trip early this
week and on Friday and Saturday will
preside at the organ recital at the
Tabernacle. Assistant Organist Kimball
will preside the fore part of the week.
The announcement that the collection
OF violins which belonged to the late
George Haddcck, the famous English
musician, was TO be sold aroused the
keenest interest among dealers and col
lectors all over the world. The Had
deck fiddles are reputed to be the
finest private collection in existence,
The gem being the Emperor Stradi~
NM ms pronounced by Joachim TO be
effc finest violin he had ever seen, and
wT'irn is stated to be worth $4,000 It
Standing It's great age looks as fresh
as u il had but yesterday left the
lands Of Antonio Stradivari, the famed
violin maker Of Cremona,
This rs a somewhat exceptional value
n hr nlaccd on Il violin. the price of
each cf The. 60 Strads which are known
to hr in elstence ranging from $4,000
to $4,000, Perhaps the only violin
which can he compared with the En-
pernr st ndivarIush of the Haddock
collection is the one which Paganini
lett 10 the CITY of Genoa for which as
r,uch ms $4,000 has been offered. The
Sirad presented TO the late Dr. Joachim
s6 COO. while that presented to Lady
Halle by the Duke of Edinburgh, the
late Earl of Dudley. and the late Lord
Ha-dwicke, cost $4,000
Wien Sarasate S will was proved tvs
years ago it was found that lie had be
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The Conservatives of Paris and Madrid,
the money being for the purpose Of
founding prizes bearing his name. Eacn
OF the violins was valued at about SIC
600. one of the instruments having been
discc1 cred IL very romantic manner.
Al pne time it was the property or a
Galeran blacksmith, to whom it had
SSbeen given by traveller who could not
Fpay for the shoeing of his horse. Fox
years il hung on the wall of the black
smith s house, until after many years
anotbo" horseman, NJ. Boissier, who
was also a violinist and a collector of
violns came along, The blacksmith
him at his own price, or Csc to find
him ;"rchaser NJ. Boissier carried
it away. cleaned off the smoke, discov.
cred the Strad mark-and did not de-
fraud the blacksmith
The stolr reminds one that the favor
ite violin OF NJ. Eugene Ysaye-a mag
Efficient Strad, valued at S15.0 900, which
was stolen from his crossing room three
years ego while jr st. Percrsburg--.'s
said TO have changed hands at one per
ioG for 1 few dollarg. being sold at that
Price oy an unknown traveller TO a
waiter u railway restaurant in i
small Mdravian town.
Tw,.f ut least $4,000 has been paid
by private treaty for Strads, and $1,000
was paid for "Betts .Strad,h the title
which it gained from the following in
cident, Belts was n music seller In
London some sixty years ago, and one
day a stranger entered his shop offer.
ing violin for sale at the low sum of
one guinea The dealer at once jumped
at the bargain, put down his guinea
and secured the instrument, He re
tanned it in his famil~ for a number
of wears, and, after changing hands
several times it was bought at the fig
ure named by foreign nobleman.
Five years ago $500 was paid for a
Strad which for years was played upon
by a strolling musician of London,
while some time ago $4,000 was paid
for fiddle which had previously been
Knocked down at an auction sale to a
laborer for a dollar and a half. Fortu
nately for him the laborer knew some
thing of the value Of fiddles, and few
days later sold his instrument for
sS.o0O-truly record bargain.
John W. Summerhays is spending his
summer vacation in the southern part
of the state and is incidentally giving
concerts in some of the larger towns.
i Fred Graham is arranging for mp.
= Tpearance at the Odeon on North TEN.
pie street of four eminent vocal solo