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Stradivari Instruments Stradivari Instruments Violins Sobriquet Year Provenance Notes Royal Academy of Currently displayed as part of Royal ex-Back 1666 Music Academy's York Gate Collection Canimex Dubois 1667 on loan to Alexandre Dacosta [8] Foundation Francis Aranyi sold at Sotheby's London, 12 November 1986 Aranyi 1667 (collector); [9] Jean Baptiste ex-Captain Vuillaume; 1667 Saville Captain Saville (1901-1907) Though listed in many reference books as one of Stradivari's earliest instruments, the modern Amatese 1668 consensus is that it is not a Stradivari; it was sold Sotheby's New York 3 February 1982 as "an interesting violin." [10] Oistrakh 1671 David Oistrakh missing: stolen in 1996 [11] Sellière 1672 Charles IV of Spain; Finnish Cultural Spanish 1677 on loan to Elina Vähälä [12] Foundation Hellier 1679 Sir Samuel Hellier Smithsonian Institution this violin along with the Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727, the Paganini- Mendelssohn viola 1731, and Paganini- Paganini- Nippon Music 1680 Ladenburg cello of 1731, comprise a group of Desaint Foundation [13] instruments referred to as The Paganini Quartet; on loan to Kikuei Ikeda of the Tokyo String Quartet Fleming 1681 Stradivari Society on loan to Cecily Ward [14] Timothy Baker; Chanot-Chardon 1681 Shaped like a guitar Joshua Bell Bucher 1683 Cipriani Potter 1683 Cobbett; ex- 1683 Holloway ex-Arma 1685 Senkrah ex-Castelbarco 1685 Ole Bull 1687 Ole Bull (1844); Donated to the Smithsonian Institute in 1997 1 - 10 Dr. Herbert Axelrod by Axelrod (1985-1997) on loan to Jonathan Carney, concertmaster of Mercur-Avery 1687 the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2002 Auer 1689 Stradivari Society on loan to Vadim Gluzman [14] Dextra musica AS, on loan to Elise Båtnes, concertmaster, Oslo Arditi 1689 Norway Philharmonic Canada Council for Baumgartner 1689 [15] the Arts Bingham 1690 Winterthur- Bennett 1692 on loan to Hanna Weinmeister Versicherungen Falmouth 1692 on loan to Leonidas Kavakos George Gould bequethed by Gould to the Metropolitan Gould 1693 Metropolitan Museum in 1955[16] Museum of Art Baillot- 1694 Pommerau Royal Academy of Ruston 1694 on loan to Clio Gould[17] Music Fetzer 1695 Stradivari Society on loan to Ruggero Allifranchini [14] Cabriac 1698 one of eleven Stradivari violins associated with Baron Knoop 1698 Baron Johann Knoop Royal Academy of Joachim 1698 Music Duc de 1699 Camposelice on loan to Yang Liu; sold at Christie's auction Lady Tennant 1699 US$2.032 million, April 2005 [18] Longuet 1699 Countess 1699 on loan to Gil Shaham. Polignac Castelbarco 1699 Royal Academy of Kustendyke 1699 Music Royal Academy of Crespi 1699 Music Cristiani 1700 Nippon Music Dragonetti 1700 Foundation Jupiter 1700 Giovanni Battista 2 - 10 Viotti Taft; ex-Emil Canada Council for 1700 on loan to Jessica Linnebach [15] Heermann the Arts on loan to Dennis Kim, concertmaster, Seoul Dushkin 1701 Philharmonic Orchestra Markees 1701 Music Chamber on loan to Leung Kin-fung Irish 1702 OKO Bank, Finland on loan to Réka Szilvay Conte di David Oistrach Fontana; ex- 1702 (1953-1963); Oistrakh's first violin Oistrach Massimo Quarta on loan to the Ion Voicu foundation; Lukens-Edler 1702 Romanian state ownership disputed between the state of Voicu Romania and the "Ion Voicu" foundation. King Maximilian 1702 Stradivari Society on loan to Berent Korfker [14] Joseph Lyall 1702 Stradivari Society on loan to Stefan Milenkovich [14] La Rouse Österreichische on loan to Boris Kuschnir of the Kopelman 1703 Boughton Nationalbank [19] Quartet Nippon Music Lord Newlands 1702 on loan to Toru Yasunaga Foundation Allegretti 1703 Alsager 1703 Lady Paul Bartel, 1703 Harmsworth Cincinnati, OH Anne-Sophie Emiliani 1703 Mutter U.S. Library of Betts 1704 Congress On loan to Isabelle Faust. One of the few L-Bank Baden- Sleeping Beauty 1704 Stradivari violins to have retained original Wurttemberg neck. ex-Marsick; ex- acquired in trade by Oistrach for the 1702 1705 David Oistrach Oistrach Conte di Fontana Österreichische ex-Brüstlein 1707 Nationalbank [20] La Cathédrale 1707 Stradivari Society on loan to Tamaki Kawakubo [14] on loan to Kyoko Takezawa; sold at Christie's Christian Hammer New York on 16 May 2006 for a record Hammer 1707 (collector) US$3,544,000 (€2,765,080) after five minutes of bidding. [1] [2] Burstein 1708 Stradivari Society on loan to Janice Martin [14] 3 - 10 Bagshawe Nippon Music Huggins 1708 on loan to Sergey Khachatryan [21] Foundation on loan to Leila Josefowicz and Vadim Repin Ruby 1708 Stradivari Society [14] Berlin 1709 Hochschule Hammerle; ex- Österreichische 1709 on loan to Werner Hink Adler Nationalbank Ernst 1709 on loan to Zsigmondy Dénes through 2003 Nippon Music Engleman 1709 on loan to Lisa Batiashvili Foundation Royal Academy of Viotti; ex-Bruce 1709 purchased in 2005 for GB£3.5 million Music Giovanni Battista Viotti; Marie Hall 1709 named after violinist, Marie Hall The Chi-Mei Collection ex-Kempner 1709 on loan to Soovin Kim Nippon Music Camposelice 1710 on loan to Kyoko Takezawa Foundation Lord Dunn- Anne-Sophie 1710 Raven Mutter ex-Roederer 1710 on loan to David Grimal. on loan to Samuel Magad, concertmaster, ex-Vieuxtemps 1710 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Earl of Plymouth; 1711 Fritz Kreisler Kreisler Liegnitz 1711 missing: stolen in 1953 from Solloway's Karpilowsky 1712 Harry Solloway residence in Los Angeles Boissier 1713 Bronislaw Gibson; ex- 1713 Huberman; stolen twice before Bell's acquisition Huberman Joshua Bell Jascha Heifetz; Dolphin; Delfino 1714 Nippon Music on loan to Akiko Suwanai Foundation Soil 1714 Itzhak Perlman ex-Berou; ex- 1714 Thibaud 4 - 10 Le Maurien 1714 missing: stolen 2002 [22] Leonora Jackson 1714 Sinsheimer; Itzhak Perlman General Kyd; 1714 David L. Fulton Perlman Österreichische Smith-Quersin 1714 on loan to Rainer Honeck Nationalbank Alard-Baron 1715 Knoop Baron Knoop; 1715 ex-Bevan ex-Bazzini 1715 Cremonese; ex- Municipality of 1715 Harold Joachim Cremona Nippon Music Joachim 1715 on loan to Sayaka Shoji Foundation Lipinski 1715 missing: stolen in 1962 ex-Marsick 1715 on loan to James Ehnes Titian 1715 Jacob Lynam Cessole 1716 Berthier 1716 on loan to Shunsuke Sato; formerly loaned to Nippon Music Booth 1716 Arabella Steinbacher; formerly loaned to Julia Foundation Fischer Colossus 1716 missing: stolen 1998 [22] Monasterio 1716 Cyrus Forough Provigny 1716 Ashmolean Messiah-Salabue 1716 on exhibit at the Oxford Ashmolean Museum Museum Oxford ex-Windsor- Canada Council for 1716 on loan to Jean-Sébastien Roy [15] Weinstein; Fite the Arts Baron 1716 on loan to Mincio Mincev Wittgenstein Gariel 1717 ex-Wieniawski 1717 Nippon Music Sasserno 1717 on loan to Viviane Hagner Foundation Giovanni Battista Viotti; Viotti; ex-Rosé 1718 on loan to Volkhard Steude Österreichische Nationalbank Firebird; ex- 1718 Salvatore Accardo Its name is taken from the colouration of the 5 - 10 Saint Exupéry varnish and its brilliant sound. Marquis de played by Majeske while concertmaster of the 1718 Daniel Majeske Riviere Cleveland Orchestra from 1969-1993. San Lorenzo 1718 Talbot Aachen on loan to David Garrett Johann Christoph Lauterbach 1719 missing: stolen Lauterbach Madrileño 1720 von Beckerath 1720 Michael Antonello Mendellsohn Red 1721 Family; inspiration for the 1998 film, The Red Violin Mendelssohn Elizabeth Pitcairn Antonius Stradivarius 1721 recovered in southern Germany in 2006 Cremonensis named after Lady Anne Blunt, daughter of Lady Blunt 1721 Paolo Stradivari Ada Lovelace, granddaughter of Lord Byron. Jean-Marie 1721 Jean-Marie Leclair; on loan to Guido Rimonda [1] Leclair Artot 1722 Jupiter; ex- Nippon Music on loan to Daishin Kashimoto; formerly 1722 Goding Foundation Midori Goto Laub- 1722 Petschnikoff Jules Falk 1722 Viktoria Mullova Elman 1722 Chi Mei Museum on loan to Jennifer Frautschi; named after the Cádiz 1722 Joseph Fuchs city of Cádiz, Spain. Kiesewetter 1723 Stradivari Society on loan to Stefan Jackiw. [14] Earl Spencer 1723 loaned to Emmy Verhey Real Conservatorio bequeathed to the Conservatory by Pablo de Le Sarastre 1724 Superior de Música, Sarasate; on loan to Chen Xi Madrid Brancaccio 1725 Österreichische Chaconne 1725 on loan to Rainer Küchel Nationalbank Nippon Music on loan to Baiba Skride; one of several Wilhelmj 1725 Foundation Stradivari violins with the sobriquet Wilhelmj Greville; 1726 Fritz Kreisler Kreisler; Adams Barrere 1727 Stradivari Society on loan to Janine Jansen [14] Davidoff-Morini 1727 missing: stolen in 1995 [23] ex-General 1727 on loan to Jennifer Koh 6 - 10 Dupont Holroyd 1727 one of four Stradivari violins with the Kreutzer 1727 Maxim Vengerov sobriquet Kreutzer (1701, 1720, 1731) Hart; ex- 1727 Salvatore Accardo Francescatti this violin along with the Paganini-Desaint violin of 1680, the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola Paganini-Comte Nippon Music of 1731, and the Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1727 Cozio di Salabue Foundation 1736, comprise a group of instruments referred to as The Paganini Quartet; on loan to Martin Beaver of the Tokyo String Quartet Angelika Prokopp Halphen 1727 on loan to Eckhard Seifert Private Foundation Antonio Brosa Vesuvius 1727 Remo Lauricella Town of Cremona A. J. Fletcher; on loan to Nicholas Kitchen of the Borromeo A. J. Fletcher Red Cross 1728 String Quartet; the instrument was made by Foundation Knight Omobono Stradivarius [24] Artot-Alard 1728 Dragonetti; Giovanni Battista 1728 on loan to Corey Cerovsek Milanollo Viotti Jack Benny; bequeathed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Benny 1729 Los Angeles by Jack Benny Philharmonic Solomon, ex- Murray Lambert; sold at Christie's, New York for US$2,728,000 1729 Lambert
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