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Also Known As fiddle

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Violin
Antonio Vivaldi
Joseph Joachim
Violin
Hardanger fiddle
Typically ornate Hardanger fiddle (detail), a Norwegian folk instrument.
Violin interior
Luthier inspects a violin body at a workbench beside a microscope and shelves of varnish jars. Overlay arrow points to the violin with a text box: “$1 million!”
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room.
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
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Alban Berg
Austrian composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
Skaggs, Ricky
Ricky Skaggs
American musician and producer
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Arcangelo Corelli
Italian musician
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Nicolò Amati
Italian violin maker
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Wojciech Adalbert Zywny
Polish musician
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Giuseppe Guarneri
Italian violin maker [1698-1745]

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