Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Owner of Stradivarius violin!!!

Violins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stradivarius_instruments

Sobriquet↓Year↓Provenance↓Notes↓
ex-Back1666Royal Academy of Musiccurrently displayed as part of Royal Academy's York Gate Collection
Dubois1667Canimex Foundationon loan to Alexandre da Costa [1]
Aranyi1667Francis Aranyi (collector)sold at Sotheby's London, 12 November 1986 [2]
ex-Captain Saville1667Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
Captain Saville (1901–1907)
Amatese1668though listed in many reference books as one of Stradivari's earliest instruments, the modern consensus is that it is not a Stradivari; it was sold Sotheby's New York 3 February 1982 as "an interesting violin." [3]
Oistrakh1671David OistrakhStolen from the Museum of Musical Culture in Russia in May 1996 but recovered in 2001.[4]
Sellière1672Charles IV of Spain
Spanish1678Finnish Cultural Foundationon loan to Elina Vähälä [5]
Hellier1679Sir Samuel HellierSmithsonian Institution
Paganini-Desaint1680Nippon Music Foundation [6]this violin along with the Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727, thePaganini-Mendelssohn viola 1731, and Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, compose a group of instruments referred to as the Paganini Quartet; on loan to Kikuei Ikeda of the Tokyo String Quartet
1680The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei
1681Reynier or Comte de ChesnaisOwned in 1949 by Lyon & Healey. Previously owned by Napoleon III, the violinist Léon Reynier[7] and the comte de Chesnais.
Fleming1681
Bucher1683
Cipriani Potter1683Cipriani Potter
Cobbett; ex-Holloway1683on loan to Sejong brokered by the Stradivari Society [8]
ex-Croall1684WestLB
ex-Elphinstone1684
ex-Arma Senkrah1685
ex-Castelbarco1685
Goddard1686Miss Goddard
Antonio Fortunato[9]
Ole Bull1687Ole Bull (1844)
Dr. Herbert Axelrod (1985–1997)
Donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod. Now part of the Axelrod quartet.
Mercur-Avery1687on loan to Jonathan Carney, concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2002
1688The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei
Auer1689on loan to Vadim Gluzman brokered by the Stradivari Society [8]
Arditi1689Dextra musica AS, Norwayon loan to Elise Båtnes, concertmaster, Oslo Philharmonic
Baumgartner1689Canada Council for the Artson loan to Judy Kang [10]
Spanish I1689Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain [11]date range 1687–1689; part of a duo of violins (Spanish I and II) referred to aslos Decorados, and los Palatinos; also collectively known as del Cuarteto Real (The Royal Quartet) when included with the Spanish Court viola (1696) and cello (1694).
Spanish II1689Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain [11]date range 1687–1689; part of a duo of violins (Spanish I and II) referred to aslos Decorados, and los Palatinos; also collectively known as del Cuarteto Real (The Royal Quartet) when included with the Spanish Court viola (1696) and cello (1694).
Bingham1690
Bennett1692Winterthur-Versicherungenon loan to Hanna Weinmeister
Falmouth1692on loan to Leonidas Kavakos
Gould1693George Gould
Metropolitan Museum of Art
bequeathed by Gould to the Metropolitan Museum in 1955 [12]
Harrison1693Richard Harrison
Henry Hottinger
Kyung-wha Chung
in the collection of the National Music Museum [13]
Baillot-Pommerau1694Formerly owned by Arthur Catterall, then by Alfredo Campoli[14]
Rutson1694Royal Academy of Musicon loan to Clio Gould [15]
Fetzer1695
1697Edvin MartonDima Bilan, together with Evgeni Plushenko, and Edvin Marton playing his Stradivarius, won the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 [16]
Molitor[17]1697Madame Juliette Récamier, Paris (?–1804)
Count Gabriel-Jean-Joseph Molitor, Paris (1804–1849)
Molitor family (1849–1917)
J. Mazeran, Paris (1917–1923)
The Curtis Institute, Philadelphia (1929–1936)
Mr. R. A. Bower, Somerset (1937–1957)
Miss Muriel Anderson, Londonderry (1957–1989)
Elmar Oliveira (1989–1994)

Albert Stern (1994–2010)[18][19]
Anne Akiko Meyers (2010–)[20]

Thought to originally belong to Napoleon Bonaparte. Sold by Tarisio Auctionsfor $3,600,000, a new world record[21]
Cabriac1698
Baron Knoop1698one of eleven Stradivari violins associated with Baron Johann Knoop
Joachim1698Royal Academy of Music
Duc de Camposelice1699Cho-Liang Lin
Lady Tennant; Lafont1699Charles Phillipe Lafont
Marguerite Agaranthe Tennant
on loan to Xiang Gao brokered by the Stradivari Society;[8] sold at Christie's auction US$2.032 million, April 2005 [22]
Longuet1699
Countess Polignac1699on loan to Gil Shaham.
Castelbarco1699Library of CongressPresented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall[23]
Kustendyke1699Royal Academy of Music
Crespi1699Royal Academy of Music
The Penny1700Barbara Penny
Dragonetti1700Nippon Music FoundationFormerly owned by Alfredo Campoli, now played by Veronika Eberle
Jupiter1700Giovanni Battista Viotti
Taft; ex-Emil Heermann1700Canada Council for the Artson loan to Renée‑Paule Gauthier [10]
Dushkin1701on loan to Dennis Kim, concertmaster, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
Markees1701Music Chamber
Irish1702Pohjola Bank Art Foundation, Finlandon loan to Antti Tikkanen [24]
Conte de Fontana; ex-Oistrakh1702David Oistrakh (1953–1963)
Riccardo Brengola
Pro Canale Foundation
Oistrakh's first violin; on loan to Mariana Sirbu
Lukens; Edler Voicu1702A.W. Lukens
Jon Voicu
Romania Culture Ministry
on loan to Alexandru Tomescu through 2012 [25]
King Maximilian Joseph1702
Lyall1702
Antonio Stradivari1703Bundesrepublik Deutschlandon exhibit at Musikinstrumentenmuseum, Berlin [26]
La Rouse Boughton1703Österreichische Nationalbank[27]on loan to Boris Kuschnir of the Kopelman Quartet
Lord Newlands1702Nippon Music Foundationon loan to Sergey Khachatryan
Allegretti1703
Alsager1703
Lady Harmsworth1703Paul Bartelon loan to Kristof Barati brokered by the Stradivari Society[28]
Emiliani1703Anne-Sophie Mutter
ex-Foulis1703on loan to Karen Gomyo[29]
Betts1704U.S. Library of CongressPresented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall[23]
Sleeping Beauty1704L-Bank Baden-Württembergon loan to Isabelle Faust. One of the few Stradivari violins to have retained original neck.
ex-Marsick; ex-Oistrakh1705David Oistrakhacquired in trade by Oistrakh for the 1702 Conte di Fontana
ex-Tadolini1706The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei
ex-Brüstlein1707Österreichische Nationalbank[27]
La Cathédrale1707
Hammer1707Christian Hammer (collector)sold at Christie's New York on 16 May 2006 for a record US$3,544,000 (€2,765,080) after five minutes of bidding [30][31]
Le Davidoff1708Musée de la Musique, Parisbequeathed to the Museum in 1887
Le Tua1708Musée de la Musique, Parisdonated to the museum in 1935
Burstein; Bagshawe1708owned by the Jacobs family, loaned to Jeff Thayer, San Diego Symphony concertmaster
Huggins1708Nippon Music Foundationon loan to ray chen [32]
Ruby1708on loan to Chen Xi brokered by the Stradivari Society [8]
Strauss1708on loan to Chee-Yun brokered by the Stradivari Society [8]
Greffuhle1709Donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod. Now part of the Axelrod quartet.
Berlin Hochschule1709
Hammerle; ex-Adler1709Österreichische Nationalbank[27]on loan to Werner Hink
Ernst1709on loan to Zsigmondy Dénes through 2003
Engleman1709Nippon Music Foundationon loan to Lisa Batiashvili
King Maximilian; Unico1709Axel Springer Foundationon loan to Michel Schwalbé, concert master of the Berlin Philharmonic (1966–1986)[33]; reported stolen in 1999[34]
Viotti; ex-Bruce1709Royal Academy of Musicpurchased in 2005 for GB£3.5 million
Marie Hall1709Giovanni Battista Viotti
The Chi-Mei Collection
named after the violinist, Marie Hall
ex-Kempner1709on loan to Soovin Kim
Camposelice1710Nippon Music Foundationon loan to Kyoko Takezawa
Lord Dunn-Raven1710Anne-Sophie Mutter
ex-Roederer1710on loan to David Grimal.
ex-Vieuxtemps1710on loan to Samuel Magad, concertmaster, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Davis1710on loan to Michael Shih, concertmaster, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra[35]
the Lady Inchiquin1711previously owned by Fritz Kreislerplayed by Frank Peter Zimmermann, a German banking company, WestLB AG, bought it for his use.[36]
Earl of Plymouth; Kreisler1711Los Angeles Philharmonic [37]found in store room on the estate of the Earl of Plymouth along with The Messiah and Alard violins in 1925; purchased by Fritz Kreisler in 1928 and subsequently sold by him in 1946 [38]
Liegnitz1711previously owned by Szymon Goldberg
Le Brun1712Niccolò Paganini
Charles LeBrun
Otto Senn
sold at Sotheby's auction 13 November 2001
Karpilowsky1712Harry Sollowaymissing: stolen in 1953 from Solloway's residence in Los Angeles
Schreiber1713
Antonio Stradivari1713
Boissier1713
Daniel1713on loan to Jhon Paul Reynols
Sancy1713Ivry Gitlis
Gibson; ex-Huberman1713Bronisław Huberman
Joshua Bell
stolen twice from Huberman
Lady Ley1713Stradivarius familynow bought by Jue Yao, Chinese violinist
Wirt1713The Chi-Mei Collection
Dolphin; Delfino1714Jascha Heifetz
Nippon Music Foundation
on loan to Akiko Suwanai
Soil1714Amédée Soil
Yehudi Menuhin
Itzhak Perlman
ex-Berou; ex-Thibaud1714
Le Maurien1714missing: stolen 2002 [4]
Leonora Jackson1714
Massart1714Lambert Massart
György Pauk
Sinsheimer; General Kyd; Perlman1714Itzhak Perlman
David L. Fulton
Smith-Quersin1714Österreichische Nationalbank[27]on loan to Rainer Honeck
Alard-Baron Knoop1715
Baron Knoop; ex-Bevan1715
ex-Bazzini1715
Cremonese; ex-Harold; Joseph Joachim1715Joseph Joachim
Municipality of Cremona
Duke of Cambridge; ex-Pierre Rode1715NPO "Yellow Angel"on loan to Ryu Goto [39]
Joachim1715Nippon Music Foundation
Lipinski1715Giuseppe Tartinion loan to Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster, Frank Almond [40]
ex-Marsick1715on loan to James Ehnes
Titian1715Jacob Lynam
Le Provigny1716Musée de la Musique, Parisbequeathed to the Museum in 1909
Cessole1716
Berthier1716Baron Vecsey de Vecse
Franco Gulli [41]
Booth1716Nippon Music Foundationon loan to Shunsuke Sato; formerly loaned to Arabella Steinbacher; formerly loaned to Julia Fischer
Colossus1716missing: stolen 1998 [4]
Duranti1716Mariko Senju [42]
Monasterio1716Cyrus Forough
Provigny1716
Messiah-Salabue1716Ashmolean Museum Oxfordon exhibit at the Oxford Ashmolean Museum
ex-Windsor-Weinstein; Fite1716Canada Council for the Artson loan to Caroline Chéhadé [10]
Baron Wittgenstein1716The Bulgarian stateon loan to Mincho Minchev since 1979
Gariel1717
ex-Wieniawski1717
Kochanski1717Pierre Amoyal
Paweł Kochański
reported stolen in 1987; recovered in 1991 [43]
Sasserno1717Nippon Music Foundationon loan to Viviane Hagner
Viotti; ex-Rosé1718Giovanni Battista Viotti
Österreichische Nationalbank[27]
on loan to Volkhard Steude
Chanot-Chardon1718Timothy Baker
Joshua Bell
shaped like a guitar[44]; on loan to Simone Lamsma
Firebird; ex-Saint Exupéry1718Salvatore Accardoname is taken from the colouration of the varnish and its brilliant sound.
Marquis de Riviere1718Daniel Majeskeplayed by Majeske while concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1969–1993
San Lorenzo1718Georg Talboton loan to David Garrett, while his Guadagnini is repaired. Initial news reports erroneously stated it was the San Lorenzo he had smashed.[45][46]
ex-Count Vieri1718The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei
Lauterbach1719Johann Christoph Lauterbach
J.B. Vuillaume
Charles Philippe Lafont [47]
Madrileño1720
von Beckerath1720Michael Antonello
Sinsheimer; Iselin1721reported stolen near Hanover, Germany in 2008; recovered in 2009.[48]
Lady Blunt1721Paolo Stradivarinamed after Lady Anne Blunt, daughter of Ada Lovelace, granddaughter ofLord Byron.
Jean-Marie Leclair1721Jean-Marie Leclairon loan to Guido Rimonda [49]
Red Mendelssohn1721Mendelssohn family
Elizabeth Pitcairn
inspiration for the 1998 film, The Red Violin
The Macmillan1721On Loan to Ray Chen through Young Concert Artists
Artot1722
Jules Falk1723Viktoria Mullova
Jupiter; ex-Goding1722Nippon Music Foundationon loan to Daishin Kashimoto; formerly Midori Goto
Laub-Petschnikoff1722
Elman1722Chi Mei Museum
Cádiz1722Joseph Fuchson loan to Jennifer Frautschi; named after the city of Cádiz, Spain.
Kiesewetter; ex-Keisewetter1723Clement and Karen Arrison[50]on loan to Philippe Quint brokered by the Stradivari Society [8] Left by Quint in taxi on 21 April 2008, and recovered the following day.
Earl Spencer1723on loan to Nicola Benedetti [51]
Le Sarasate1724Musée de la Musique, Paris [52]bequeathed to the Conservatory by Pablo de Sarasate, in memory of his student days at the Conservatoire
Brancaccio1725Destroyed in an allied air raid on Berlin.owned by Carl Flesch, until 1928 where it was sold to Franz von Mendelssohn, banker and amateur violinist.[53]
Chaconne1725Österreichische Nationalbank[27]on loan to Rainer Küchel
Leonardo da Vinci1725Da Vinci family [54]
Wilhelmj1725Nippon Music Foundationon loan to Baiba Skride; one of several Stradivari violins with the sobriquet"Wilhelmj"
Greville; Kreisler; Adams1726Fritz Kreisler
Baron Deurbroucq1727Baron Deurbroucq (The Hague) (1870)
Robert Crawford (Edinburgh)
W.E. Hill & Sons (1902)
Hans Wessely (1903–1926)
David D. Walton (Boston) (1926)
Emil Herrmann (19??–1945)
Fredell Lack (1945-present)
Barrere1727on loan to Janine Jansen brokered by the Stradivari Society [8]
Davidoff-Morini1727missing: stolen in 1995;[55]
ex-General Dupont1727Arthur Grumiauxon loan to Jennifer Koh
Holroyd1727
Kreutzer1727Maxim Vengerovone of four Stradivari violins with the sobriquet Kreutzer (1701, 1720, 1731)
ex-Reynier or Le Reynier; Hart; ex-Francescatti1727Societe LVMH (Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton) since 1993 or 1994
Salvatore Accardo.
Named after Leon Reynier who won at the Concervatoire de Paris in 1847. Has been lent to Maxim Vengerov.
Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue1727Nippon Music Foundationthis violin along with the Paganini-Desaint violin of 1680, the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola of 1731, and the Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, compose a group of instruments referred to as the Paganini Quartet; on loan to Martin Beaver of the Tokyo String Quartet
Halphen1727Angelika Prokopp Private Foundationon loan to Eckhard Seifert
Vesuvius1727Antonio Brosa
Remo Lauricella
Town of Cremona
A. J. Fletcher; Red Cross Knight1728A. J. Fletcher Foundationon loan to Nicholas Kitchen of the Borromeo String Quartet; the instrument was made by Omobono Stradivarius [56]
Artot-Alard1728Endre Balogh [57]a bench copy of this instrument was produced in 1996 by Gregg Alf andJoseph Curtin, using modern materials and methods;[58] Balogh performs on both the 1728 original and the replica.[59]
Dragonetti;Milanollo1728Giovanni Battista Viotti
Domenico Dragonetti
Teresa Milanollo
on loan to Corey Cerovsek
Perkins1728Los Angeles Philharmonicnamed after Frederick Perkins, formerly owned by Luigi Boccherini[60]
Benny1729Jack Benny
Los Angeles Philharmonic
bequeathed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic by Jack Benny
Solomon, ex-Lambert1729Murray Lambert
Seymour Solomon
sold at Christie's, New York for US$2,728,000 (€2,040,000)
Innes1729on loan to Eugen Sarbu; previously loaned to Wieniawski
Guarneri1729Canada Council for the Artson loan to Nikki Chooi[61]
Recamier1729Ryuzo Ueno, Honorary Chairman, Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry, Ltd.on loan to Sayaka Shoji
Royal Spanish1730Anne Akiko Meyers [62]once owned by the King of Spain [63]
Lady Jeanne1731Donald Kahn Foundationon loan to Benjamin Schmid
Garcin1731Jules Garcin
Sidney Harth
Heifetz-Piel1731Rudolph Piel
Jascha Heifetz
Baillot1732Fondazione Casa di Risparmiolent to Giuliano Carmignola for the DG recording of Vivaldi: Concertos for Two Violins[64]
Duke of Alcantara1732an obscure Spanish nobleman described as an aide-de-campof King Don Carlos
UCLA
Genevieve Vedder donated the instrument to the University of California at Los Angeles' (UCLA) music department in the 1960s. In 1967, the instrument was on loan to David Margetts. Whether it was left on the roof of his car or stolen is uncertain, but for 27 years the violin was considered missing until it was recovered from an amateur violinist who claimed to have found it on a freeway. A settlement was made and the Stradivarius was returned to UCLA in 1995.[65][66][67]
Herkules1732Eugène Ysaÿemissing: stolen in Russia in 1908 [4]
Red Diamond1732Louis Von Spencer IV
Tom Tyler1732previously loaned to Joshua Bell
Des Rosiers1733Angèle Dubeaupreviously owned by Arthur Leblanc
Huberman; Kreisler1733Bronisław Huberman
Fritz Kreisler
Khevenhüller1733Yehudi Menuhin
Rode1733
Ames1734missing: stolen in 1981 [4]
Baron Feilitzsch;Heermann1734Baron Feilitzsch
Hugo Heerman
Gidon Kremer
Habeneck1734Royal Academy of Music
Herkules; Ysaÿe; ex-Szeryng; King David1734Eugène Ysaÿe
Charles Münch
Henryk Szeryng
State of Israel
Lord Amherst of Hackney1734Fritz Kreisler
Lamoureux; ex-Zimbalist1735missing: stolen [4]
Muntz1736Nippon Music Foundationon loan to Arabella Steinbacher
ex-Roussy1736Chisako Takashima[68]
Yale Stradivari1736Yale University, Collection of Musical Instruments[69]
Comte d'Amaille1737
Lord Norton1737

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