# Novembre in music - Tuesday, 28 November 2023 [  ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/images/easyblog_articles/25/daniela-lanfredi-cremona-01.jpg) November must be dreary, there is no escape, but crossing the Po so swollen with water thrilled me, and Cremona, despite the dreary afternoon, is still a little Po Valley living room. It is a city with a secret: its ancient relationship with musical instruments. Not far from the Torrazzo with its astronomical clock (to be wound every day) and the Piazza del Duomo stands the Violin Museum. A reductive definition. The refurbished building of the former Palazzo dell'Arte, commissioned in the 1940s by fascist hierarch Farinacci, houses a museum and an Auditorium The Museum is a path through the art of luthiers and a container of extraordinary stringed instruments, ancient and not. Violas, violins, cellos crafted by the hands of Stradivari, Guarneri and other luthiery artists. Entering the Auditorium is like entering a sound box, wood is everywhere molded into soft honey-colored swirls, a space where sound envelops you. I'm metioning sound because , in this Auditorium, instruments from the museum collection are kept 'alive', entrusted, in the hands of experienced musicians in turn. It is about a 30-minute 'audition'. Short performances that keep the instrument in practice and give the museum's visitors the great opportunity of enjoying classical music. Because the ancient sound of a Stradivari cello from the 1700s warms everyone's heart. --- [  ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/images/easyblog_articles/25/b2ap3_large_daniela-lanfredi-cremona-02.jpg) [  ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/images/easyblog_articles/25/b2ap3_large_daniela-lanfredi-cremona-06.jpg) [  ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/images/easyblog_articles/25/b2ap3_large_daniela-lanfredi-cremona-10.jpg) [  ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/images/easyblog_articles/25/b2ap3_large_daniela-lanfredi-cremona-03.jpg) [  ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/images/easyblog_articles/25/b2ap3_large_daniela-lanfredi-cremona-07.jpg) [  ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/images/easyblog_articles/25/b2ap3_large_daniela-lanfredi-cremona-11.jpg) [  ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/images/easyblog_articles/25/b2ap3_large_daniela-lanfredi-cremona-04.jpg) [  ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/images/easyblog_articles/25/b2ap3_large_daniela-lanfredi-cremona-08.jpg) [  ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/images/easyblog_articles/25/b2ap3_large_daniela-lanfredi-cremona-05.jpg) [  ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/images/easyblog_articles/25/b2ap3_large_daniela-lanfredi-cremona-09.jpg) [ 0 ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/javascript:void(0);) [ ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/javascript:void(0);) [ ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/javascript:void(0);) [ ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/javascript:void(0);) Tags: [Cremona](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/en/blogging/tags/cremona) [Music](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/en/blogging/tags/music) - [ From castle to castle ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/en/blogging/from-castle-to-castle) - [ Eulogy of slowness ](https://www.danielalanfredi.com/en/blogging/eulogy-of-slowness)