Nicolo bussotti biography for kids

In anticipation of the birth of his first child, master violinmaker Nicolo Bussotti begins what will be his greatest achievement. But when his wife dies in childbirth, what was meant as a celebratory offering quickly becomes a fixation. Overwhelmed with grief, Bussotti continues his work determined to create an everlasting tribute to his love: a perfect violin imbued with her spirit. So begins the story of The Red Violin, as it travels across continents, cultures and centuries inspiring passion and obsession in every life it touches.

.. Francois Girard&#;s Thirty Two Short Films About Glen Gould () was a remarkable and fascinating film that explored the complexity of the great pianist through a series of short episodes. Now Girard offers up a very different film that is also made on an episodic structure and in which, once again, music is central to the themes and story. In The Red Violin, the instrument itself provides the unifying element as Girard follows its history over three centuries.

In the first of five segments, Nicolo Bussotti, a master violinmaker in seventeenth century Italy, is making his masterpiece instrument in anticipation of the birth of his son. Mother and son both die during childbirth, but the stricken Bussotti completes the instrument as an homage to his lost wife and to the unrealized life of his lost infant son.

A century later, the violin is in the possession of an Austrian order of monks who shelter orphans &#; and teach them to play the violin. The red violin is played by the most gifted of the orphans who is taken in hand by a French music master and groomed for an audition with the prince. In the third episode, the violin is played by Frederick Pope (Ja