A violin handcrafted in 1714 by Antonio Stradivari, the famous Italian luthier, has been sold for $11.25 million by Boston’s ...

Ma Stradivarius” at $12 million to $18 million.

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

A Stradivarius violin has sold for $11.25 million (£9 million), with the auction house claiming it is one of the most ...

Further complicating matters, many musical instruments have evolved since the 19th century. Violins, for instance, now use metal strings instead of ones made from animal gut, and some of the ...

The sale of the 300-year-old violin, a "rare gem," raised money for student scholarships at the New England Conservatory.

American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has favored a more populist modernism. “Musica celestis,” the second ...

There is a certain paradox to the greatest violins. No matter how uniform the testimony of their players and audiences, a ...

In “The Uncanny Muse,” David Hajdu offers a lively survey of centuries of machines that have served as instruments of ...