{"id":32989,"date":"2023-02-08T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T22:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/the-stradivarius-that-survived-a-shipwreck-will-be-played-in-rome-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:53:42","slug":"the-stradivarius-that-survived-a-shipwreck-will-be-played-in-rome-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/the-stradivarius-that-survived-a-shipwreck-will-be-played-in-rome-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stradivarius that survived a shipwreck will be played in Rome tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Teatro Argentina in Rome<\/strong> is hosting Christian Poltera&#8217;s concert with a <strong>Stradivari<\/strong> cello from 1711 that survived a shipwreck.  <strong>Christian Poltera<\/strong>, one of the most acclaimed cellists of his generation, will use on Thursday 9 in concert at the Teatro Argentina for the Roman Philharmonic Academy, alongside the English pianist Kathryn Stott in a program that ranges from some of the most famous works for cello and piano by Brahms, Chopin and Prokofiev.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To embellish the debut, it will be precisely the instrument that Poltera will hold, the legendary &#8220;<strong>Mara<\/strong>&#8221; built by <strong>Antonio Stradivari in Cremona in 1711<\/strong> which owes its name to the first known owner, Giovanni Mara, a cellist who will sell the instrument to pay off debts.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Passed through the hands of various cellists over the course of two centuries, in <strong>1961<\/strong> due to a <strong>shipwreck in the Rio de la Plata<\/strong>, while the owner, Amedeo Baldovino, was with the Trieste Trio, the instrument was recovered after being immersed in water for many hours. It took <strong>three years of restoration<\/strong> and recomposition of the parts for the instrument to start playing again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Teatro Argentina in Rome is hosting Christian Poltera&#8217;s concert with a Stradivari cello from 1711 that survived a shipwreck. Christian Poltera, one of the most acclaimed cellists of his generation, will use on Thursday 9 in concert at the Teatro Argentina for the Roman Philharmonic Academy, alongside the English pianist Kathryn Stott in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}