AUDIOBOOK

The Cremona Violin

E. T. A. Hoffmann
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Duration
1h 1m
Year
2026
Language
English

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In a quiet German town, Councillor Krespel lives as both a master craftsman and a man of unsettling contradictions-brilliant, erratic, and consumed by an obsession with violins.



He builds without plans. He destroys as often as he creates. And among his many instruments, one stands apart-a mysterious Cremona violin that seems to carry a voice of its own.



When the young and gifted Antonia enters his life, beauty and tragedy begin to intertwine. Her voice possesses a rare, almost supernatural power-one that promises greatness, but at a terrible cost. As music becomes both expression and danger, Krespel is forced into a cruel choice between art and life, passion and preservation.



Told with the haunting intensity of German Romanticism, The Cremona Violin is a psychological tale of obsession, love, and the fragile boundary between genius and madness.



Narrated with depth and emotional precision by Michael Lyons, this timeless story explores the price of brilliance-and the silence that follows when music fades.

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