The Cremonese 1715 protagonist at the Italian Embassy in Paris

The Cremonese 1715 protagonist at the Italian Embassy in Paris.

Cremona with his Stradivari, unique for quality and acoustics, protagonists once again in Paris with an exclusive event opened by the Italian Ambassador Emanuela D'Alessandro and the Mayor Gianluca Galimberti, and organized in the evocative setting of Sicilian Theater of our Embassy in Paris where about a hundred guests attended, including authorities, tour operators and journalists.

The virtuoso Stradivari, before returning to Cremona after i two months of exhibition at the Musée de la Musique in Pariswhere numerous visitors had the opportunity to admire him, he performed with the violinist Sara Zanelli in a unique concert in front of the French audience where they have been performed pieces by Paganini, Sarasate, Massenet and Bach.

“The concert in the Embassy of Cremonese 1715 and the exchanges between the Musée de la Musique and the Violin Museum”, declared the Ambassador D'Alessandro, “are part of an intense cultural collaboration between French and Italian institutions, which they themselves contribute to strengthening and developing along the lines traced by the Quirinale Treaty. The presence in Paris of this very prestigious Stradivarius also enriches a year of exceptional visibility for Italian culture in France: I warmly thank Mayor Galimberti and all the partners for the initiative".

“Cremona in Paris, with our Italian Ambassador to France, Emanuela D'Alessandro, whom we thank very much” declared the Mayor Gianluca Galimberti "has once again shared its greatness on an international level with a highly prestigious media echo. With the tour operators we met we further promoted our city, because the great results on tourism in Cremona must continue to be cultivated. And then, together with our Italian Ambassador to UNESCO whom we thank, we told what we are doing for our violin making, the intangible heritage of humanity: the safeguard plan built in recent years together with our artisan artists supports the quality of their extraordinary work in our city, home of music and instruments, recognized throughout the world. Finally, I particularly thank the Deputy Mayor of Paris whose presence represented a great honor for us. Cremona's international relations are fundamental to make Cremona grow and also to raise in all of us the proud and responsible awareness of our greatness. "

At the event in Paris, where the Councilor for Tourism also spoke, Barbara Manfredini, the Councilor for Culture, Luca Burgazzi, the director of the Violin Museum, Virginia Villa and the Conservative Fausto Cacciatori, the artistic bond that exists between the two cities was confirmed and how Cremona is once again an ambassador of music and art in all its forms.

“Being present in Paris with the maximum expression of our violin making art is strategic for us as well as a source of pride” comments the director of the Violin Museum, Virginia Villa "The collaboration between the Musée de la Musique and the Violin Museum, thanks to the research work of the conservators, Fausto Cacciatori and Jean-Philippe Échard, is aimed at promoting organological, historical and scientific research projects, while at the same time initiating a comparison of the results obtained to date. In September 2024, Cremona will welcome the Sarasate Stradivari at the Violin Museum, who returns home after leaving Stradivari's workshop three hundred years ago".

The mission in Paris it was also the occasion for some institutional meetings that the Mayor and his delegation had with French authorities such as the Vice Mayor of Paris with responsibility for international relations, Arnaud Ngatcha, to initiate and consolidate relations between the two cities and develop new cultural exchange projects, and with UNESCO – the Deputy Director General was present Stefania giannini – and the Italian Permanent Representative Ambassador Liborio Stellino.

Cremona with his “traditional Cremonese luthier know-how”, after having been the protagonist last September at the European UNESCO days with the students of the International School of Violin Making and with Fabrizio von Arx, President of the Casa Stradivari Foundation, therefore represented an active supply chain to the guests who attended with over 180 shops and with the artistic project and masterclass of young luthiers carried out by the aforementioned Foundation, demonstrating how it is possible preserve the art of Cremonese violin making in the name of his great Master Antonio Stradivari and all the music.