List of Stradivarius instruments
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This is a list of Stradivarius instruments, fabricated by members of the house of Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari was an Italian luthier and a crafter of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas, and harps. Stradivari is generally considered the most significant artisan in this field. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial, "Strad", is...

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Violins

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Sobriquet
Sobriquet
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Year Provenance
Provenance
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ex-Back 1666 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

currently displayed as part of Royal Academy's York Gate Collection
Dubois 1667 Canimex Foundation on loan to Alexandre Da Costa
Alexandre Da Costa
-Life and career:Da Costa was born in Montreal Canada in 1979. He received a Master’s degree in violin in 1998 and a First Prize from the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec. From 1998 to 2001, he studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid with his mentor Zakhar Bron. In 2002,...

Aranyi 1667 Francis Aranyi (collector) sold at Sotheby's
Sotheby's
Sotheby's is the world's fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation.-History:The oldest auction house in operation is the Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674, the second oldest is Göteborgs Auktionsverk founded in 1681 and third oldest being founded in 1731, all Swedish...

 London, 12 November 1986
ex-Captain Saville 1667 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume 
Captain Saville (1901–1907)
Amatese 1668 though 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."
Oistrakh 1671 David Oistrakh
David Oistrakh
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....

Stolen from the Museum of Musical Culture in Russia in May 1996 but recovered in 2001.
Sellière 1672 Charles IV of Spain
Charles IV of Spain
Charles IV was King of Spain from 14 December 1788 until his abdication on 19 March 1808.-Early life:...

Spanish 1678 Finnish Cultural Foundation on loan to Elina Vähälä
Elina Vähälä
Elina Vähälä is a Finnish violinist. Vähälä made her concert debut aged 12 with the Lahti Symphony. Elina Vähälä has released CDs and given many concerts.- External links :*...

Hellier
Hellier Stradivarius
The Hellier Stradivarius of circa 1679 is a violin made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy. It derives its name from the Hellier family, who might well have bought it directly from the luthier himself....

1679 Sir Samuel Hellier
The Wodehouse
The Wodehouse is a country house near Wombourne, Staffordshire, notable as the seat of the Georgian landscape designer and musicologist Sir Samuel Hellier and, a century later, Colonel Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier, director of the Royal Military School of Music. For almost 200 years the family...

Smithsonian Institution
Paganini-Desaint 1680 Nippon Music Foundation
Nippon Music Foundation
The Nippon Music Foundation is an organisation under the supervision of the Arts and Culture Promotion Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education...

this violin along with the Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727, the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola 1731, and Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, compose a group of instruments referred to as the Paganini Quartet
Paganini Quartet
The Paganini Quartet was a virtuoso string quartet founded by its first violinist, Henri Temianka, in 1946. The quartet drew its name from the fact that all four of its instruments, made by Antonio Stradivari , had once been owned by the great Italian violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini...

; on loan to Kikuei Ikeda of the Tokyo String Quartet
Tokyo String Quartet
The is an international string quartet.The group formed in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music. The founding members attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, where they studied with Professor Hideo Saito. Soon after its formation the Quartet won First Prizes at the Coleman Competition,...

. The foundation owns more than a dozen Stradivari instruments.
1680 The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei
1681 Reynier or Comte de Chesnais Owned in 1949 by Lyon & Healey. Previously owned by Napoleon III, the violinist Léon Reynier and the comte de Chesnais.
Fleming 1681
Bucher 1683
Cipriani Potter 1683 Cipriani Potter
Cipriani Potter
Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter was a British composer, pianist and educator.-Life and career:Born in London, the son of a piano teacher named Richard Huddleston Potter, Cipriani was named after his godmother...

Cobbett; ex-Holloway 1683 on loan to Sejong brokered by the Stradivari Society
ex-Croall 1684 WestLB
ex-Elphinstone 1684 owned since 2005 by Philip Greenberg, Artistic director and conductor of the Kiev Philharmonic in the Ukraine. Currently on loan (2011) to Jennifer Koh
Jennifer Koh
Jennifer Koh is an American violinist, born to Korean parents in Glen Ellyn, IL.Jennifer Koh earned a B.A. in English Literature from Oberlin College, as well as a Performance Diploma from the attached Oberlin Conservatory. She is also a graduate of the Curtis Institute and was silver medalist in...

, violinist.
ex-Arma Senkrah 1685
ex-Castelbarco 1685
Rosenheim 1686 Mr. William Rosenheim
Goddard 1686 Miss Goddard
Antonio Fortunato
Ole Bull 1687 Ole Bull
Ole Bull
Ole Bornemann Bull was a Norwegian violinist and composer.-Background:Bull was born in Bergen. He was the eldest of ten children of Johan Storm Bull and Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden . His brother, Georg Andreas Bull became a noted Norwegian architect...

 (1844)
Donated to the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

 in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod
Herbert R. Axelrod
Herbert Richard Axelrod is a tropical fish expert, publisher of pet books, and entrepreneur. In 2005 he was sentenced in U.S. court to 18 months in prison for tax fraud.-Early life:...

. Now part of the Axelrod quartet
Axelrod quartet
right|thumbnail|The Axelrod quartet, on display in the [[Smithsonian Institution]] [[National Museum of American History]]. From left to right:[[Greffuhle Stradivarius|Greffuhle violin]] , [[Axelrod Stradivarius|Axelrod viola]] , [[Ole Bull Stradivarius|Ole Bull violin]] , and [[Marylebone...

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Mercur-Avery 1687 on loan to Jonathan Carney, concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is a professional American symphony orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland.In September 2007, Maestra Marin Alsop led her inaugural concerts as the Orchestra’s twelfth music director, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra.The BSO Board...

 since 2002
1688 The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei
Auer 1689 on loan to Vadim Gluzman brokered by the Stradivari Society
Arditi 1689 Dextra musica AS, Norway on loan to Elise Båtnes, concertmaster
Concertmaster
The concertmaster/mistress is the spalla or leader, of the first violin section of an orchestra. In the UK, the term commonly used is leader...

, Oslo Philharmonic
Baumgartner 1689 Canada Council for the Arts on loan to Judy Kang
Judy Kang
Judy Kang is a Canadian violinist. She began her career at the age of 4 in her native Edmonton, Canada, and has since toured across the globe with a multitude of orchestras and ensembles. At age 11, she began to study on a full scholarship at the Curtis Institute of Musicand and at just 17, she...

Spanish I 1689 Patrimonio Nacional
Patrimonio Nacional
The Consejo de Administración del Patrimonio Nacional is a Spanish state agency, under the jurisdiction of the Minister of the Presidency by delegation of the Prime Minister of Spain, that administers the sites owned by the Spanish...

, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain
date range 1687–1689; part of a duo of violins (Spanish I and II) referred to as los 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 II 1689 Patrimonio Nacional
Patrimonio Nacional
The Consejo de Administración del Patrimonio Nacional is a Spanish state agency, under the jurisdiction of the Minister of the Presidency by delegation of the Prime Minister of Spain, that administers the sites owned by the Spanish...

, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain
date range 1687–1689; part of a duo of violins (Spanish I and II) referred to as los 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).
Bingham 1690
Bennett 1692 Winterthur-Versicherungen
Winterthur Group
AXA Winterthur is a multinational insurance company. The original company named Winterthur was founded in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1875. Until June 2006, Winterthur was a Credit Suisse subsidiary. Now, Paris-based AXA Insurance has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Winterthur...

on loan to Hanna Weinmeister
Falmouth 1692 on loan to Leonidas Kavakos
Leonidas Kavakos
Leonidas Kavakos is a Greek virtuoso violinist .-Beginnings:Born in Athens into a musical family, Kavakos began studying violin at five years old and continued his studies at the Hellenic Conservatory with Stelios Kafantaris. An Onassis Foundation scholarship enabled him to attend master classes...

Gould 1693 George Gould
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...

bequeathed by Gould to the Metropolitan Museum in 1955
Harrison 1693 Richard Harrison
Henry Hottinger
Kyung-wha Chung
Kyung-wha Chung
Kyung-wha Chung is a Korean violinist.- Biography :Kyung-wha Chung's musical career began at the age of three. Her fame in the seventies and eighties was at the top level, and ranked alongside the great violinists Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman...

in the collection of the National Music Museum
Baillot-Pommerau 1694 Formerly owned by Arthur Catterall
Arthur Catterall
Arthur Catterall was an English concert violinist, orchestral leader and conductor, one of the best-known English classical violinists of the first half of the twentieth century.- Early training :...

, then by Alfredo Campoli
Alfredo Campoli
Alfredo Campoli was an Italian-born British violinist, often known simply as Campoli. He was noted for the beauty of the tone he produced from the violin.-Biography:...

Rutson 1694 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

on loan to Clio Gould
Clio Gould
Clio Gould, is an English violinist, professor, director of the Royal Academy Soloists and leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.Gould has appeared as soloist with a number of orchestras, including the London Sinfonietta, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the...

Fetzer 1695
1697 Edvin Marton
Edvin Marton
Edvin Marton is a Ukrainian composer and violinist of Hungarian ethnicity. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, and other famous skaters often skated to his music.- Biography :He was born in an area of Ukraine largely inhabited by...

Dima Bilan
Dima Bilan
' is a Russian actor and pop singer . Bilan represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with "Never Let You Go", finishing second, and he won the contest in 2008 in Belgrade, with the song "Believe". He has had several Russian no. 1 hits....

, together with Evgeni Plushenko
Evgeni Plushenko
Evgeni Viktorovich Plushenko is a Russian figure skater. He is the 2006 Winter Olympics Gold Medalist, 2002 Winter Olympics Silver Medalist, and 2010 Winter Olympics Silver Medalist, three-time World Champion, six-time European Champion, a four-time Grand Prix Final champion and an eight-time...

, and Edvin Marton
Edvin Marton
Edvin Marton is a Ukrainian composer and violinist of Hungarian ethnicity. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, and other famous skaters often skated to his music.- Biography :He was born in an area of Ukraine largely inhabited by...

 playing his Stradivarius, won the Eurovision Song Contest 2008
Eurovision Song Contest 2008
The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the 53rd edition of the Contest. It was hosted in Belgrade, Serbia after Marija Šerifović won the 2007 Contest in Helsinki, Finland. This year was the first contest to have two semi-finals which were held on 20 and 22 May, and the final held on 24 May 2008...

Molitor
Molitor Stradivarius
The Molitor Stradivarius is an antique violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona in 1697, the very beginning of the maker's celebrated "Golden" period...

1697 Madame 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)

Anne Akiko Meyers
Anne Akiko Meyers
Anne Akiko Meyers is an American concert violinist. Meyers has toured and collaborated with a number of symphony orchestras and Il Divo, Chris Botti and Wynton Marsalis. Meyers tours with a 1730 Stradivarius violin called the 'Royal Spanish'...

 (2010–)
Thought to originally belong to Napoleon Bonaparte. Sold by Tarisio Auctions
Tarisio Auctions
- Tarisio Auctions :This is the main page for Tarisio Auctions, the online string instrument auction house. For the Italian violin collector, see Luigi Tarisio....

 for $3,600,000, a new world record until the Lady Blunt was sold in June 20, 2011.
Cabriac 1698
Baron Knoop
Baron Knoop Stradivarius
The Baron Knoop Stradivarius of 1698 is an antique violin made by luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona ....

1698 one of eleven Stradivari violins associated with Baron Johann Knoop
Baron Johann Knoop
Baron Johann Knoop , was a collector of musical instruments who possessed a total of 29 great violins, violas, and cellos at one time or another including some four Stradivari violas...

Joachim 1698 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

Duc de Camposelice 1699 Cho-Liang Lin
Cho-Liang Lin
Cho-Liang Lin , born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is a Taiwanese American violinist who is renowned for his appearances as a soloist with major orchestras. "Musical America" named him its "Instrumentalist of the Year" in 2000...

Lady Tennant; Lafont
Lady Tennant Stradivarius
The Lady of Tennant-Lafont Stradivarius is an antique violin made by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona in 1699, one year before the beginning of his so-called 'golden' period....

1699 Charles Phillipe Lafont
Marguerite Agaranthe Tennant
on loan to Xiang Gao brokered by the Stradivari Society; sold at Christie's auction US$2.032 million, April 2005
Longuet 1699
Countess Polignac 1699 on loan to Gil Shaham
Gil Shaham
-Biography:Gil Shaham was born in Urbana, Illinois, while his parents, Israeli scientists, were on an academic fellowship at the University of Illinois. His father Jacob was an astrophysicist, and his mother, Meira Diskin, was a cytogeneticist. His sister is the pianist Orli Shaham. He is a...

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Castelbarco 1699 Library of Congress
Library of Congress
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Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall
Kustendyke 1699 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

Crespi 1699 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

The Penny 1700 Barbara Penny
Barbara Penny
Barbara Penny was a British violinist.She was the first woman to play in the strings section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra...

Dragonetti 1700 Nippon Music Foundation Formerly owned by Alfredo Campoli
Alfredo Campoli
Alfredo Campoli was an Italian-born British violinist, often known simply as Campoli. He was noted for the beauty of the tone he produced from the violin.-Biography:...

, now played by Veronika Eberle
Veronika Eberle
Veronika Eberle is a German violinist.Veronika Eberle has established a reputation as one of the most promising violin talents to emerge from Germany in recent years....

Jupiter
Jupiter Stradivarius
The Jupiter, ex-Goding Stradivarius is a violin constructed in 1722 by the famous luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It is one of only 700 extant Stradivari instruments in the world today.The Jupiter is owned by the Nippon Music Foundation...

1700 Giovanni Battista Viotti
Giovanni Battista Viotti
Giovanni Battista Viotti was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness...

Taft; ex-Emil Heermann 1700 Canada Council for the Arts on loan to Renée‑Paule Gauthier
Dushkin 1701 on loan to Dennis Kim, concertmaster, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
Markees
Markees Stradivarius
The Markees is a violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It was created in 1701....

1701 Music Chamber
Irish 1702 Pohjola Bank Art Foundation, Finland on loan to Antti Tikkanen
Conte de Fontana; ex-Oistrakh 1702 David Oistrakh
David Oistrakh
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....

 (1953–1963)
Riccardo Brengola
Riccardo Brengola
Riccardo Brengola was an Italian violinist.Brengola was born in Naples. A child prodigy, he made his first studies with his father, and got his violin diploma in the Casablanca Conservatory at the early age of 11. returning to Italy, he studied violin with Arrigo Serato and orchestral conducting...

 
Pro Canale Foundation
Oistrakh's first violin; on loan to Mariana Sirbu
Lukens; Edler Voicu 1702 A. W. Lukens
Ion Voicu
Romania Culture Ministry
on loan to Alexandru Tomescu through 2012
King Maximilian Joseph 1702
Lyall 1702
Antonio Stradivari 1703 Bundesrepublik Deutschland on exhibit at Musikinstrumentenmuseum, Berlin
La Rouse Boughton 1703 Österreichische Nationalbank on loan to Boris Kuschnir of the Kopelman Quartet
Kopelman Quartet
The Kopelman Quartet is a Russian string quartet founded in 2002 by Mikhail Kopelman , Boris Kuschnir , Igor Sulyga and Mikhail Milman .- External links :*...

Lord Newlands 1702 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Sergey Khachatryan
Allegretti 1703
Alsager 1703
Lady Harmsworth 1703 Paul Bartel on loan to Kristof Barati
Kristof Barati
Kristóf Baráti is a Hungarian violinist, and is widely regarded as one of the most talented violinists to emerge in recent years.-Early life:...

 brokered by the Stradivari Society
Emiliani 1703 Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter is a German violinist.- Early life :Mutter was born in Rheinfelden, Germany. She began playing the piano at age five, and shortly afterwards took up the violin, studying with Erna Honigberger, a pupil of Carl Flesch...

ex-Foulis 1703 on loan to Karen Gomyo
Betts
Betts Stradivarius
The Betts Stradivarius is an antique violin made in 1704 by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It is one of only 700 known extant Stradivari instruments....

1704 U.S. Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall
Sleeping Beauty 1704 L-Bank Baden-Württemberg on loan to Isabelle Faust. One of the few Stradivari violins to have retained original neck.
ex-Marsick; ex-Oistrakh 1705 David Oistrakh acquired in trade by Oistrakh for the 1702 Conte di Fontana
ex-Tadolini 1706 The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei
ex-Brüstlein 1707 Österreichische Nationalbank
La Cathédrale 1707
Hammer
Hammer Stradivarius
The Hammer Stradivarius is an antique violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. The back measures 36 cm, bearing the label inside: "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis/Faciebat Anno 1707"...

1707 Christian 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
Le Davidoff 1708 Musée de la Musique
Cité de la Musique
The Cité de la Musique is a group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the La Villette quarter, 19th arrondissement, Paris, France. It was designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc and opened in 1995...

, Paris
bequeathed to the Museum in 1887
Le Tua 1708 Musée de la Musique
Cité de la Musique
The Cité de la Musique is a group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the La Villette quarter, 19th arrondissement, Paris, France. It was designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc and opened in 1995...

, Paris
donated to the museum in 1935
Burstein; Bagshawe 1708 owned by the Jacobs family, loaned to Jeff Thayer, San Diego Symphony concertmaster
Huggins 1708 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Ray Chen
Ray Chen
Ray Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the first prize winner in the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.-Biography:...

Regent 1708 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

on loan to Tasmin Little
Tasmin Little
Tasmin Little is an English violinist.She studied under Pauline Scott at the Yehudi Menuhin School and later at the Guildhall School of Music, coming to prominence as a string section finalist in the 1982 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition...

Ruby 1708 on loan to Chen Xi brokered by the Stradivari Society
Strauss 1708 on loan to Chee-Yun
Kim Chee Yun
Kim Chee Yun is a South Korean female violinist from Seoul. Her professional name is "Chee-Yun". Chee-Yun performed in Korea at the age of 13. She studied at the Juilliard School with Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, and Felix Galimir. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1989...

 brokered by the Stradivari Society
Greffuhle 1709 Donated to the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

 in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod
Herbert R. Axelrod
Herbert Richard Axelrod is a tropical fish expert, publisher of pet books, and entrepreneur. In 2005 he was sentenced in U.S. court to 18 months in prison for tax fraud.-Early life:...

. Now part of the Axelrod quartet
Axelrod quartet
right|thumbnail|The Axelrod quartet, on display in the [[Smithsonian Institution]] [[National Museum of American History]]. From left to right:[[Greffuhle Stradivarius|Greffuhle violin]] , [[Axelrod Stradivarius|Axelrod viola]] , [[Ole Bull Stradivarius|Ole Bull violin]] , and [[Marylebone...

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Berlin Hochschule 1709
Hammerle; ex-Adler 1709 Österreichische Nationalbank on loan to Werner Hink
Ernst 1709 on loan to Dénes Zsigmondy through 2003
Engleman 1709 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Lisa Batiashvili
Lisa Batiashvili
Lisa Batiashvili is a Georgian violinist, the daughter of a violinist father and a pianist mother. Her father was her first teacher from age 4. She later studied at the Hamburg Musikhochschule...

King Maximilian; Unico 1709 Axel Springer Foundation on loan to Michel Schwalbé, concert master of the Berlin Philharmonic (1966–1986); reported stolen in 1999
Viotti; ex-Bruce 1709 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

purchased in 2005 for GB£3.5 million
Marie Hall 1709 Giovanni Battista Viotti
The Chi-Mei Collection
named after the violinist, Marie Hall
ex-Kempner 1709 on loan to Soovin Kim
La Pucelle
La Pucelle (violin)
La Pucelle, also known as The Virgin, is a 1709 violin made by Antonio Stradivari. Parisian dealer Jean Baptiste Vuillaume took it apart in the 19th century and added a tailpiece with a carving of Joan of Arc, the virgin warrior known as "La Pucelle". It was once owned by Huguette Clark, given to...

1709 Huguette Clark 
David Fulton
Camposelice 1710 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Kyoko Takezawa
Kyoko Takezawa
is a prominent Japanese-born violinist. She has recorded on both the BMG and RCA labels.She started her training in Japan as a part of the Suzuki Method program and was part of a tour of the United States. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School where her teacher was Dorothy DeLay. Ms...

Lord Dunn-Raven
Lord Dunn-Raven Stradivarius
The Lord Dunn-Raven Stradivarius of 1710 is an antique violin fabricated by luthier, Antonio Stradivari of Cremona . It is one of only 700 known extant Stradivari instruments. This violin is currently owned by violinist, Anne-Sophie Mutter. The Lord Dunn-Raven was fabricated during the Stradivari's...

1710 Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter is a German violinist.- Early life :Mutter was born in Rheinfelden, Germany. She began playing the piano at age five, and shortly afterwards took up the violin, studying with Erna Honigberger, a pupil of Carl Flesch...

ex-Roederer 1710 on loan to David Grimal
David Grimal
David Grimal is a French violinist.He started to play the violin at the age of five. He won First Prize in violin and chamber music at the Paris Conservatory in 1993. Afterwards he did his postgraduate studies with Regis PASQUIER...

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ex-Vieuxtemps 1710 on loan to Samuel Magad, concertmaster, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1891, the Symphony makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival...

Davis 1710 on loan to Michael Shih, concertmaster, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Fort Worth, Texas. The orchestra performs at the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in downtown Fort Worth...

the Lady Inchiquin 1711 previously owned by Fritz Kreisler
Fritz Kreisler
Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...

played by Frank Peter Zimmermann
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Frank Peter Zimmermann is a German violinist.He was born in Duisburg, Germany, and started playing the violin when he was five years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10....

, a German banking company, WestLB AG, bought it for his use.
Earl of Plymouth; Kreisler 1711 Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September...

found in store room on the estate of the Earl of Plymouth
Earl of Plymouth
Earl of Plymouth is a title that has been created three times, twice in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation was in 1675 for Charles FitzCharles, illegitimate son of King Charles II by his mistress Catherine Pegge...

 along with The Messiah and Alard violins in 1925; purchased by Fritz Kreisler in 1928 and subsequently sold by him in 1946
Liegnitz 1711 previously owned by Szymon Goldberg
Szymon Goldberg
Szymon Goldberg was a Polish-born American violinist and conductor.Born in Włocławek, Congress Poland, Goldberg played the violin as a child growing up in Warsaw...

Le Brun 1712 Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique...

 
Charles LeBrun
Otto Senn
sold at Sotheby's auction 13 November 2001
Karpilowsky 1712 Harry Solloway missing: stolen in 1953 from Solloway's residence in Los Angeles
Schreiber 1713
Antonio Stradivari 1713
Boissier 1713
Daniel 1713 on loan to Jhon Paul Reynols
Sancy 1713 Ivry Gitlis
Ivry Gitlis
Ivry Gitlis is an Israeli violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He has performed with the world's top orchestras , and many of his recordings are considered classics.-Life:Born in Haifa, Mandate Palestine to Jewish immigrants from Russia,...

Gibson; ex-Huberman
Gibson Stradivarius
The Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius of 1713 is an antique violin fabricated by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. The Gibson, while owned by Bronisław Huberman, was stolen twice...

1713 Bronisław Huberman 
Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell
Joshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.-Childhood:Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's father is the late Alan P...

stolen twice from Huberman
Lady Ley 1713 Stradivarius family now bought by Jue Yao, Chinese violinist
Wirt 1713 The Chi-Mei Collection
Dolphin; Delfino
Dolphin Stradivarius
The Dolphin; Delfino Stradivarius of 1714 is an antique violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. This violin was once owned and played by the virtuoso Jascha Heifetz...

1714 Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...

 
Nippon Music Foundation
on loan to Akiko Suwanai
Akiko Suwanai
is a Japanese classical violinist.She was the youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990. In addition, she won second place in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in 1989 and is a laureate of the International Japan Competition.She has studied with Toshiya Eto at the...

Soil
Soil Stradivarius
The Soil Stradivarius of 1714 is an antique violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona . A product of Stradivari’s golden period, it is considered one of his finest....

1714 Amédée Soil
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...

 
Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-born violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th and early-21st centuries.-Early life:...

ex-Berou; ex-Thibaud 1714
Le Maurien 1714 missing: stolen 2002
Leonora Jackson 1714
Massart 1714 Lambert Massart 
György Pauk
György Pauk
-Biography:Born in Budapest, Hungary, Pauk entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music there at age twelve where he studied under Zoltán Kodály. In 1956 he left Hungary for the Netherlands and, after being persuaded by violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he permanently settled in London in 1961.Since then he...

Sinsheimer; General Kyd; Perlman 1714 Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-born violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th and early-21st centuries.-Early life:...


David L. Fulton
Smith-Quersin 1714 Österreichische Nationalbank on loan to Rainer Honeck
Alard-Baron Knoop 1715
Baron Knoop; ex-Bevan
Baron Knoop; ex-Bevan Stradivarius
The Baron Knoop, ex-Bevan Stradivarius is a violin made by the celebrated luthier Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy in 1715.The instrument is named for Baron Johann Knoop , a collector of dozens of great violins, violas, and cellos at one time or another including four violas representing more...

1715
ex-Bazzini 1715
Cremonese; ex-Harold; Joseph Joachim 1715 Joseph Joachim
Joseph Joachim
Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant violinists of the 19th century.-Origins:...

 
Municipality of Cremona
Duke of Cambridge; ex-Pierre Rode 1715 NPO "Yellow Angel" on loan to Ryu Goto
Ryu Goto
is a Japanese-American concert violinist. Goto gained attention as a child prodigy, first performing at the age of seven in the Pacific Music Festival held in Sapporo, Japan. His debut tour of 12 cities of Japan, in 2006, was sold out.-Early life:...

Joachim 1715 Nippon Music Foundation
Lipinski
Lipinski Stradivarius
The Lipinski Stradivarius is an antique violin constructed in 1715 by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, during Stradivari's "golden period" between 1700 and 1720...

1715 Giuseppe Tartini
Giuseppe Tartini
Giuseppe Tartini was an Italian baroque composer and violinist.-Biography:Tartini was born in Piran, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice to Gianantonio – native of Florence – and Caterina Zangrando, a descendant of one of the oldest aristocratic Piranian families.It...

on loan to Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its primary performing venue is the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts...

 concertmaster, Frank Almond
ex-Marsick 1715 on loan to James Ehnes
James Ehnes
James Ehnes, CM is a Canadian concert violinist.The son of Alan Ehnes, trumpet professor at Brandon University and Barbara Ehnes, former director of the Brandon School of Dance, James Ehnes began his violin studies at the age of four...

Titian 1715 Jacob Lynam
Le Provigny 1716 Musée de la Musique
Cité de la Musique
The Cité de la Musique is a group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the La Villette quarter, 19th arrondissement, Paris, France. It was designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc and opened in 1995...

, Paris
bequeathed to the Museum in 1909
Cessole 1716
Berthier 1716 Baron Vecsey de Vecse
Franco Gulli
Booth
Booth Stradivarius
The Otto Booth; Cho-Ming Sin Stradivarius of 1716 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. The original label of the instrument was "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1716"...

1716 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Shunsuke Sato
Shunsuke Sato
is a Japanese born, classical and baroque violinist and violist.-Musical activities:Sato started his concert career in the United States at 12, by winning the Young Concert Artists first prize in 1997, performing throughout North America, Europe, and Japan as a soloist with orchestras such as...

; formerly loaned to Arabella Steinbacher
Arabella Steinbacher
Arabella Steinbacher is a German classical violinist.-Biography:Steinbacher was born in Munich on November 14, 1981, to a German father and a Japanese mother. When she was three, her mother read that a German violin teacher had recently returned from Japan after studying the Suzuki method. ...

; formerly loaned to Julia Fischer
Julia Fischer
Julia Fischer is a German classical violinist and pianist.-Biography:Julia Fischer, born in Munich, Germany, is of German-Slovakian parentage. Her mother, Viera Fischer , came from the German minority in Slovakia and immigrated from Košice, Slovakia to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972...

Colossus 1716 missing: stolen 1998
Duranti 1716 Mariko Senju
Milstein ex Goldman 1716 Nathan Milstein
Nathan Milstein
Nathan Mironovich Milstein was a Russian-born American virtuoso violinist.Widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, Milstein was known for his interpretations of Bach's solo violin works and for works from the Romantic period...

sold by Charles Beare and the Milstein Family to Jerry Kohl
Monasterio 1716 Cyrus Forough
Provigny 1716
Messiah-Salabue
Messiah Stradivarius
The Messiah-Salabue Stradivarius of 1716 is a violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It is considered to be the only Stradivarius in existence in as new state....

1716 Ashmolean Museum Oxford on exhibit at the Oxford Ashmolean Museum
ex-Windsor-Weinstein; Fite 1716 Canada Council for the Arts on loan to Caroline Chéhadé
Baron Wittgenstein 1716 The Bulgarian state on loan to Mincho Minchev since 1979; formerly owned by John Corigliano (former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic
New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States. It is one of the American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five"...

)
Gariel 1717 Jaime Laredo
Jaime Laredo
Jaime Laredo is a violinist and conductor. Currently the conductor and Music Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, he began his musical career when he was five years old. In 1948 he came to North America and took lessons from Antonio DeGrass...

ex-Wieniawski 1717
Kochanski 1717 Pierre Amoyal
Paweł Kochański
reported stolen in 1987; recovered in 1991
Sasserno 1717 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Viviane Hagner
Viviane Hagner
Viviane Hagner is an internationally renowned violinist. She was born in Munich, Germany in 1977, to a German father and Korean mother.Hagner made her international debut at the age of 12, and one year later performed as soloist at the historic "Joint Concert" in Tel Aviv with the Berlin and...

Viotti; ex-Rosé 1718 Giovanni Battista Viotti
Österreichische Nationalbank
on loan to Volkhard Steude
Chanot-Chardon 1718 Timothy Baker
Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell
Joshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.-Childhood:Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's father is the late Alan P...

shaped like a guitar; on loan to Simone Lamsma
Firebird; ex-Saint Exupéry 1718 Salvatore Accardo
Salvatore Accardo
Salvatore Accardo is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor.He is highly regarded for his interpretations of Paganini, J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, contemporary works, chamber music, and opera conducting....

name is taken from the colouration of the varnish and its brilliant sound.
Marquis de Riviere 1718 Daniel Majeske played by Majeske while concertmaster
Concertmaster
The concertmaster/mistress is the spalla or leader, of the first violin section of an orchestra. In the UK, the term commonly used is leader...

 of the Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1918, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Severance Hall...

 from 1969–1993
San Lorenzo 1718 Georg Talbot on loan to David Garrett
David Garrett (violinist)
David Garrett is a record breaking German/American classical violinist and recording artist.-Personal life:...

, while his Guadagnini
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini ; was an emiliano luthier, regarded as one of the finest craftsmen of string instruments in history.-Biography:...

 is repaired. Initial news reports erroneously stated it was the San Lorenzo he had smashed.
ex-Count Vieri 1718 The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei
Lauterbach
Lauterbach Stradivarius
The Lauterbach Stradivarius of 1719 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier, Antonio Stradivari of Cremona . The instrument derives its name from previous owner, German virtuoso, Johann Christoph Lauterbach.-History of owners:...

1719 Johann Christoph Lauterbach
J.B. Vuillaume 
Charles Philippe Lafont
Charles Philippe Lafont
Charles Philippe Lafont was a French violinist and composer.-Biography:Born in Paris, he received his first lessons from his mother. He later studied with Rodolphe Kreutzer and Pierre Rode....

Zahn 1719 LVMH
LVMH
LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A., better known as LVMH, is a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate headquartered in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The company was formed after the 1987 merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton with Moët Hennessy, a company formed after the 1971 merger...

Madrileño 1720 Rimma Sushanskaya
teacher of Harvard
wife of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...


Rembert Wurlitzer
Duques de Osuna
von Beckerath 1720 Michael Antonello
Sinsheimer; Iselin 1721 reported stolen near Hanover, Germany in 2008; recovered in 2009.
Lady Blunt 1721 Nippon Music Foundation
Nippon Music Foundation
The Nippon Music Foundation is an organisation under the supervision of the Arts and Culture Promotion Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education...

named after Lady Anne Blunt
Lady Anne Blunt
Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, née King-Noel, 15th Baroness Wentworth , known for most of her life as Lady Anne Blunt, was co-founder, with her husband the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, of the Crabbet Arabian Stud. The two married on 8 June 1869...

, daughter of Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace , born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine...

, granddaughter of Lord Byron. The Lady Blunt was last sold at London auction house Tarisio on June 20, 2011 for £9,808,000 (US$15.9 million), with proceeds going to the Nippon Foundation's Northeastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund.
Jean-Marie Leclair 1721 Jean-Marie Leclair
Jean-Marie Leclair
Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné, also known as Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder, was a Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school...

on loan to Guido Rimonda
Guido Rimonda
Guido Rimonda is an Italian violinist and conductor.-Biography:Born at Saluzzo in Piedmont, Rimonda studied the violin under Corrado Romano, Franco Gulli, Renato Biffoli, [Renato de Barbieri, Edoardo Oddone and Ruggiero Ricci. He made his debut at the age of 13 as the player of Corelli's sonatas in...

Red Mendelssohn 1721 Mendelssohn family
Mendelssohn family
The Mendelssohn family are the descendants of the German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, and include his grandson, the composer Felix Mendelssohn....

 
Elizabeth Pitcairn
Elizabeth Pitcairn
Elizabeth Pitcairn is an American classical violinist. She has concertized widely as a soloist and is noted for performing on the Antonio Stradivari violin that is said to have inspired the film The Red Violin.-Childhood:...

inspiration for the 1998 film, The Red Violin
The Red Violin
The Red Violin is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed by François Girard. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious violin and its many owners...

The Macmillan 1721 On Loan to Ray Chen
Ray Chen
Ray Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the first prize winner in the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.-Biography:...

 through Young Concert Artists
Artot 1722 Lorin Maazel
Lorin Maazel
Lorin Varencove Maazel is an American conductor, violinist and composer.- Early life :Maazel was born to Jewish-American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States, primarily at his parents' home in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. His father, Lincoln Maazel , was...

Jules Falk
Jules Falk Stradivarius
The Jules Falk Stradivarius is an antique violin made in 1723 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona . The instrument is currently owned and played by Russian violinist, Viktoria Mullova. It was with this instrument that Mullova won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982....

1723 Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Yurievna Mullova is a Russian violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles, and...

Jupiter; ex-Goding 1722 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Daishin Kashimoto; formerly Midori Goto
Midori Goto
is a Japanese American violinist. She made her debut at the age of 11 in a last-minute change of programming during a concert highlighting young performers by the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. When she was 21, she formed the philanthropic group Midori and Friends to help bring music to...

Laub-Petschnikoff
Laub-Petschnikoff Stradivarius
The Laub-Petschnikoff Stradivarius of 1722 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona . It is one of only 700 known extant Stradivarius instruments in the world today....

1722
Elman 1722 Chi Mei Museum
Cádiz
Cádiz Stradivarius
The Cádiz Stradivarius of 1722 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. The instrument is named after the city Cádiz, Spain where it resided for eighty years. In 1946 it was acquired by American violinist Joseph Fuchs, and is currently owned by a private...

1722 Joseph Fuchs
Joseph Fuchs
Joseph Fuchs was one of the most important American violinists and teachers of the 20th century, and the brother of Lillian Fuchs....

on loan to Jennifer Frautschi; named after the city of Cádiz, Spain.
Kiesewetter
Kiesewetter Stradivarius
The Kiesewetter Stradivarius of circa 1723 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona . The instrument derives its name from its previous owner, German composer and violinist Christophe Gottfried Kiesewetter .In 2006, the Stradivari Society brokered an...

; ex-Keisewetter
1723 Clement and Karen Arrison on loan to Philippe Quint
Philippe Quint
-Biography:Quint, whose surname is of Italian origin, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He studied at Moscow's Special Music School for the Gifted with Russian violinist Andrei Korsakov and made his orchestral debut at the age of nine. After emigrating to the United States in 1991, he earned both...

 brokered by the Stradivari Society Left by Quint in taxi on 21 April 2008, and recovered the following day.
Earl Spencer 1723 on loan to Nicola Benedetti
Nicola Benedetti
- Early life and the Yehudi Menuhin School :Benedetti was born in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire to an Italian father and a Scottish mother. She started to learn the violin at the age of four...

Le Sarasate 1724 Musée de la Musique
Cité de la Musique
The Cité de la Musique is a group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the La Villette quarter, 19th arrondissement, Paris, France. It was designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc and opened in 1995...

, Paris
bequeathed to the Conservatory by Pablo de Sarasate
Pablo de Sarasate
Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués was a Navarrese Spanish violinist and composer of the Romantic period.-Career:Pablo Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Navarre, the son of an artillery bandmaster...

, in memory of his student days at the Conservatoire
Brancaccio 1725 Destroyed in an allied air raid on Berlin. owned by Carl Flesch
Carl Flesch
Carl Flesch was a violinist and teacher.Carl Flesch was born in Moson in Hungary in 1873. He began playing the violin at seven years of age. At 10, he was taken to Vienna, and began to study with Jakob Grün. At 17, he left for Paris, and joined the Paris Conservatoire...

, until 1928 where it was sold to Franz von Mendelssohn, banker and amateur violinist.
Chaconne 1725 Österreichische Nationalbank on loan to Rainer Küchel
Leonardo da Vinci 1725 Da Vinci family
Wilhelmj 1725 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Baiba Skride
Baiba Skride
Baiba Skride is a Latvian classical violinist. She was the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Contest in 2001, and has performed around the world...

; one of several Stradivari violins with the sobriquet "Wilhelmj"
Greville; Kreisler; Adams 1726 Fritz Kreisler
Fritz Kreisler
Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...

Baron Deurbroucq 1727 Baron Deurbroucq (The Hague) (1870)
Robert Crawford (Edinburgh)
W.E. Hill & Sons (1902)
Hans Wessely (1903–1926)
David D. Walton (Boston) (1926)
Emil Herrmann
Emil Herrmann
Emil Herrmann was a prominent dealer and restorer of violins in New York City. Nearly all of the most famous instruments passed through his hands at one time or another of his career including literally hundreds of made by Antonio Stradivari, Jakob Steiner and the Amati, and Guarneri families...

 (19??–1945)
Fredell Lack
Fredell Lack
Fredell Lack is an American violinist. Noted as a concert soloist, recording artist, chamber musician, and teacher, she is retired from a position as the C. W...

 (1945-present)
Barrere 1727 on loan to Janine Jansen
Janine Jansen
Janine Jansen is a violinist. She began to study the violin at age 6. Her father and both her brothers are also musicians. Her mother is a classical singer and is a sister of the bass Peter Kooy...

 brokered by the Stradivari Society
Davidoff-Morini 1727 missing: stolen in 1995;
ex-General Dupont 1727 Arthur Grumiaux
Arthur Grumiaux
Arthur Grumiaux was a Belgian violinist who was also proficient in piano.-Youth:Grumiaux was born in Villers-Perwin, Belgium to a working-class family, and it was his grandfather who urged him to begin music studies at the age of only 4...

on loan to Jennifer Koh
Jennifer Koh
Jennifer Koh is an American violinist, born to Korean parents in Glen Ellyn, IL.Jennifer Koh earned a B.A. in English Literature from Oberlin College, as well as a Performance Diploma from the attached Oberlin Conservatory. She is also a graduate of the Curtis Institute and was silver medalist in...

Holroyd 1727
Kreutzer 1727 Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a violinist, violist, and conductor who was born in the Soviet Union.-Youth:Born on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Russia, to a family with musical tradition....

one of four Stradivari violins with the sobriquet Kreutzer (1701, 1720, 1731)
ex-Reynier or Le Reynier; Hart; ex-Francescatti 1727 LVMH
LVMH
LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A., better known as LVMH, is a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate headquartered in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The company was formed after the 1987 merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton with Moët Hennessy, a company formed after the 1971 merger...

 since 1993 or 1994
Salvatore Accardo
Salvatore Accardo
Salvatore Accardo is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor.He is highly regarded for his interpretations of Paganini, J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, contemporary works, chamber music, and opera conducting....

.
Named after Léon Reynier who won at the Concervatoire de Paris in 1847. Has been lent to Maxim Vengerov. Now on loan to Augustin Dumay.
Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue 1727 Nippon Music Foundation this 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
Paganini Quartet
The Paganini Quartet was a virtuoso string quartet founded by its first violinist, Henri Temianka, in 1946. The quartet drew its name from the fact that all four of its instruments, made by Antonio Stradivari , had once been owned by the great Italian violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini...

; on loan to Martin Beaver
Martin Beaver
Martin Beaver is a Canadian violinist. As a part of the Tokyo String Quartet he plays the Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue violin circa 1727...

 of the Tokyo String Quartet
Halphen 1727 Angelika Prokopp Private Foundation on loan to Eckhard Seifert
Vesuvius 1727 Antonio Brosa
Remo Lauricella
Remo Lauricella
Remo Lauricella was a British composer and concert violinist.He was born in London in 1912, his parents hailing from Catania in Sicily. Lauricella’s father Pietro, a successful tailor with a fashionable clientele, gave him his first violin lessons. He obtained a scholarship to the Royal College...

 
Town of Cremona
Cremona
Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...

A. J. Fletcher; Red Cross Knight 1728 A. J. Fletcher Foundation on loan to Nicholas Kitchen of the Borromeo String Quartet
Borromeo String Quartet
The Borromeo String Quartet is an American string quartet, in residence at the New England Conservatory since 1992. They have performed throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, at numerous festivals and in many distinguished chamber music series...

; the instrument was made by Omobono Stradivarius
Artot-Alard
Artot-Alard Stradivarius
The Artot-Alard Stradivarius of 1728 is an antique violin made by luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona ....

1728 Endre Balogh a bench copy of this instrument was produced in 1996 by Gregg Alf
Gregg Alf
Gregg T. Alf is a prominent contemporary American violin maker based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Alf made his first violin in 1975...

 and Joseph Curtin
Joseph Curtin
Joseph Curtin is a contemporary violinmaker.Established in Ann Arbor, co-founder with Gregg Alf of the firm Curtin & Alf.He was a 2005 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant". He has also directed workshops on violin design through the Violin Society of America, a group of...

, using modern materials and methods; Balogh performs on both the 1728 original and the replica.
Dragonetti; Milanollo 1728 Giovanni Battista Viotti
Domenico Dragonetti
Domenico Dragonetti
Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti was an Italian double bass virtuoso and composer. He stayed for thirty years in his hometown of Venice, Italy and worked at the Opera Buffa, at the Chapel of San Marco and at the Grand Opera in Vicenza...

 
Teresa Milanollo
Teresa Milanollo
Teresa Milanollo was an Italian violinist and composer. She performed as a duo with her sister Maria-Margherita, who was two years younger and also a violinist.-Biography:...

on loan to Corey Cerovsek
Corey Cerovsek
Corey Cerovsek is a violinist, pianist, and mathematician. At age 12, he was the youngest student to receive a gold medal from the Royal Conservatory of Music. In 1992, Cerovsek was the recipient of the Virginia-Parker Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts...

Perkins 1728 Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September...

named after Frederick Perkins, formerly owned by Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...

Benny 1729 Jack Benny
Jack Benny
Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film...

 
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September...

bequeathed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic by Jack Benny
Solomon, ex-Lambert
Solomon ex-Lambert Stradivarius
The Solomon, Ex-Lambert Stradivarius of 1729 is a violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona . The instrument derives its name from previous owners Seymour Solomon, co-founder of Vanguard Records, and British violinist, Dorothy Mary Murray LambertThe Solomon, ex-Lambert...

1729 Murray Lambert
Seymour Solomon
sold at Christie's, New York for US$2,728,000 (€2,040,000)
Innes 1729 on loan to Eugen Sarbu; previously loaned to Wieniawski
Henryk Wieniawski
Henryk Wieniawski was a Polish violinist and composer.-Biography:Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lublin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. His father, Tobiasz Pietruszka, had converted to Catholicism. His talent for playing the violin was recognized early, and in 1843 he entered the Paris...

Guarneri 1729 Canada Council for the Arts on loan to Nikki Chooi
Recamier 1729 Ryuzo Ueno, Honorary Chairman, Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry, Ltd. on loan to Sayaka Shoji
Sayaka Shoji
is a Japanese classical violinist. She is the first Japanese and youngest winner at the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1999.She was born into an artistic family and spent her childhood in Siena, Italy. She studied at Hochschule für Musik Köln under Zakhar Bron and graduated in 2004...

Royal Spanish 1730 Anne Akiko Meyers
Anne Akiko Meyers
Anne Akiko Meyers is an American concert violinist. Meyers has toured and collaborated with a number of symphony orchestras and Il Divo, Chris Botti and Wynton Marsalis. Meyers tours with a 1730 Stradivarius violin called the 'Royal Spanish'...

once owned by the King of Spain
Lady Jeanne 1731 Donald Kahn Foundation on loan to Benjamin Schmid
Garcin 1731 Jules Garcin
Jules Garcin
Jules Auguste, Garcin [Salomon] was an illustrious French violinist, conductor and composer of the 19th century.He was born in Bourges...

 
Sidney Harth
Sidney Harth
Sidney Harth was an American violinist and conductor.In 1957 Harth became the first American to receive the Laureate Prize in the Wieniawski Violin Competition held in Poland...

Heifetz-Piel 1731 Rudolph Piel
Jascha Heifetz
Baillot 1732 Fondazione Casa di Risparmio lent to Giuliano Carmignola
Giuliano Carmignola
Giuliano Carmignola is an Italian violinist.- Life :Coming from a family of musicians, Carmignola began his violin studies with the support of his father Antonio to enter the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia with Luigi Ferro...

 for the DG recording of Vivaldi: Concertos for Two Violins
Duke of Alcantara 1732 an obscure Spanish nobleman described as an aide-de-camp
Aide-de-camp
An aide-de-camp is a personal assistant, secretary, or adjutant to a person of high rank, usually a senior military officer or a head of state...

 of 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.
Herkules 1732 Eugène Ysaÿe
Eugène Ysaÿe
Eugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...

missing: stolen in Russia in 1908 by Harrison 'Two Times' Shaw
Red Diamond 1732 Louis Von Spencer IV
Tom Tyler
Tom Tyler Stradivarius
The Tom Taylor Stradivarius is an antique violin made by renowned luthier Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy circa 1732.The Tom Taylor is best known for its use in the recording and appearance in the Canadian film The Red Violin. It was played by Joshua Bell.The Tom Taylor was sold by Joshua Bell...

1732 previously loaned to Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell
Joshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.-Childhood:Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's father is the late Alan P...

Des Rosiers 1733 Angèle Dubeau
Angèle Dubeau
Angèle Dubeau, CM, CQ is a Québécoise violinist.Dubeau is a graduate and First Prize winner of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Dorothy DeLay and later went to Romania to work with Ştefan Gheorghiu...

previously owned by Arthur Leblanc
Huberman; Kreisler 1733 Bronisław Huberman 
Fritz Kreisler
Fritz Kreisler
Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...

Khevenhüller 1733 Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...

Rode 1733 currently used by Erzhan Kulibaev
Erzhan Kulibaev
Erzhan Kulibaev, , is a Kazakhstani violinist.-Education:He began his formal musical education in 1995 at the Republican Special Music School for Talented Children of Kulyash Baiseitova in the class of Prof. N.M. Patrusheva. In 1998 he moved to the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied in the...

 by courtesy of the Maggini Foundation
Ames
Ames Stradivarius
The Ames Stradivarius of 1734 is an antique violin, made by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It is one of only 450 - 700 known extant Stradivari instruments in the world today....

1734 missing: stolen in 1981
Baron Feilitzsch; Heermann 1734 Baron Feilitzsch
Hugo Heerman
Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.-Biography:Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish and Latvian-Swedish origins. He began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather,...

Habeneck 1734 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

Herkules; Ysaÿe; ex-Szeryng; King David 1734 Eugène Ysaÿe
Eugène Ysaÿe
Eugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...

 
Charles Münch
Charles Münch
Charles Munch was an Alsatian symphonic conductor and violinist. Noted for his mastery of the French orchestral repertoire, he is best known as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.-Biography:...

 
Henryk Szeryng
Henryk Szeryng
Henryk Szeryng was a Polish violinist.-Early years:He was born in Żelazowa Wola, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy family....

 
State of Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

Lord Amherst of Hackney 1734 Fritz Kreisler
Fritz Kreisler
Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...

Lamoureux; ex-Zimbalist 1735 missing: stolen
Muntz
Muntz Stradivarius
The Muntz Stradivarius is an antique violin crafted by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona in 1736. The label affixed to this instrument bears the inscription, “d'anni 92” , possibly handwritten by Stradivari himself. It has also been suggested that Count Cozio di Salabue, a subsequent owner, made this...

1736 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Arabella Steinbacher
Arabella Steinbacher
Arabella Steinbacher is a German classical violinist.-Biography:Steinbacher was born in Munich on November 14, 1981, to a German father and a Japanese mother. When she was three, her mother read that a German violin teacher had recently returned from Japan after studying the Suzuki method. ...

ex-Roussy 1736 Chisako Takashima
Yale Stradivari 1736 Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

, Collection of Musical Instruments
Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments
The Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments is a museum at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The collection of musical instruments was established in 1900 by the gift of historic keyboard instruments by Morris Steinert and later enriched in 1960 and 1962 by gifts from the Skinner...

Comte d'Amaille 1737
Lord Norton 1737

Violas

There are thirteen known extant Stradivari viola
Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

s.
Sobriquet Year Provenance Notes
Mahler 1672 Habisreutinger Foundation The first of the Stradivarius violas; currently on loan to French violist Antoine Tamestit
Antoine Tamestit
Antoine Tamestit is a French violist.Tamestit, who studied at the Paris Conservatory, has performed at such venues as the Royal Concertgebouw, the Vienna Musikverein, and Carnegie Hall...

Tuscan-Medici 1690 Cosimo III de' Medici commissioned by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Cosimo III de' Medici was the penultimate Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. Cosimo's 53-year long reign, the longest in Tuscan history, was marked by a series of ultra-reactionary laws which regulated prostitution and...

; currently on loan to the U.S. Library of Congress
Axelrod 1696 Donated to the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

 in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod
Herbert R. Axelrod
Herbert Richard Axelrod is a tropical fish expert, publisher of pet books, and entrepreneur. In 2005 he was sentenced in U.S. court to 18 months in prison for tax fraud.-Early life:...

. Now part of the Axelrod quartet
Axelrod quartet
right|thumbnail|The Axelrod quartet, on display in the [[Smithsonian Institution]] [[National Museum of American History]]. From left to right:[[Greffuhle Stradivarius|Greffuhle violin]] , [[Axelrod Stradivarius|Axelrod viola]] , [[Ole Bull Stradivarius|Ole Bull violin]] , and [[Marylebone...

.
Archinto 1696 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

Spanish Court 1696 Patrimonio Nacional
Patrimonio Nacional
The Consejo de Administración del Patrimonio Nacional is a Spanish state agency, under the jurisdiction of the Minister of the Presidency by delegation of the Prime Minister of Spain, that administers the sites owned by the Spanish...

, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain
collectively known as del Cuarteto Real (The Royal Quartet) when included with the violin duo, los Decorados (Spanish I and II, 1687-1689), and the Spanish Court cello of 1694.
Kux; Castelbarco 1714 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

converted from viol
Viol
The viol is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed musical instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The family is related to and descends primarily from the Renaissance vihuela, a plucked instrument that preceded the...

 to viola by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume
Jean Baptiste Vuillaume
Jean Baptiste Vuillaume was an illustrious French violin maker. He made over 3,000 instruments and was also a fine businessman and an inventor.-Early life:...

The Russian 1715 Russian State Collection
Cassavetti 1727 U.S. Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall
Paganini-Mendelssohn 1731 this viola along with the Paganini-Desaint violin of 1680, the Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727, and the Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, compose a group of instruments referred to as the Paganini Quartet
Paganini Quartet
The Paganini Quartet was a virtuoso string quartet founded by its first violinist, Henri Temianka, in 1946. The quartet drew its name from the fact that all four of its instruments, made by Antonio Stradivari , had once been owned by the great Italian violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini...

; on loan to Kazuhide Isomura of the Tokyo String Quartet
Gibson 1734 Habisreutinger Foundation Presented by David Greenless (Stradivari Quartett)

Cellos

Antonio Stradivari built between 70 and 80 cellos in his lifetime, of which 63 are extant.
Sobriquet Year Provenance Notes
ex Vatican Stradivarius
Ex Vatican Stradivarius
The Ex Vatican Stradivarius is a cello crafted circa 1620 by Nicolo Amati, master to Antonio Stradivari. The instrument was originally crafted as a viola da gamba and converted into a cello by Stradivari...

1620* Wendy Sutter On loan from the New York firm of Morel & Gradoux-Matt. Originally built by Nicolo Amati
Nicolò Amati
Niccolò Amati was an Italian luthier from Cremona.-Biography:Nicolò Amati was the fifth son of Girolamo Amati and the grandson of Andrea Amati, the founder of the Amati Family of violin makers. Of all the Amati Family violins, those of Nicolò are often considered most suitable for modern playing...

 as a viola da gamba in circa 1620*, but was transformed into the bigger, more modern sized cello by Amati's student, Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari was an Italian luthier and a crafter of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas, and harps. Stradivari is generally considered the most significant artisan in this field. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial, "Strad", is...

.
ex-Du Pre; ex-Harrell
Du Pré Stradivarius
The Du Pré Stradivarius is an antique cello fabricated in 1673 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona . It has also been known generically as the 1673 Stradivarius, as it is the only cello made by Stradivari in that year....

1673 Jacqueline du Pré
Jacqueline du Pré
Jacqueline Mary du Pré OBE was a British cellist. She is particularly associated with Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor; her interpretation has been described as "definitive" and "legendary." Her career was cut short by multiple sclerosis, which forced her to stop performing at 28 and led to her...


Lynn Harrell
Lynn Harrell
Lynn Harrell is an American classical cellist.-Biography:Harrell was born in New York City of musician parents; his father was the baritone Mack Harrell and his mother, Marjorie Fulton, was a violinist. At the age of eight he decided to learn to play the cello. When Lynn was 12, his family moved...


Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...

General Kyd; ex-Leo Stern
General Kyd Stradivarius
The General Kyd; ex-Stern Stradivarius is an antique cello crafted in 1684 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona.It was used by the English cellist Leo Stern in the premiere of Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor in London in 1896....

1684 Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September...

The instrument was stolen in 2004 and later recovered.
Marylebone 1688 Donated to the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

 in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod
Herbert R. Axelrod
Herbert Richard Axelrod is a tropical fish expert, publisher of pet books, and entrepreneur. In 2005 he was sentenced in U.S. court to 18 months in prison for tax fraud.-Early life:...

. Now part of the Axelrod quartet
Axelrod quartet
right|thumbnail|The Axelrod quartet, on display in the [[Smithsonian Institution]] [[National Museum of American History]]. From left to right:[[Greffuhle Stradivarius|Greffuhle violin]] , [[Axelrod Stradivarius|Axelrod viola]] , [[Ole Bull Stradivarius|Ole Bull violin]] , and [[Marylebone...

.
Barjansky
Barjansky Stradivarius
The Barjansky Stradivarius of c.1690 is an antique cello fabricated by the Italian Cremonese luthier Antonio Stradivari . The Barjansky is named after Russian cellist Alexandre Barjansky, who played the instrument during the first half of the twentieth century...

1690 Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber is a British solo cellist who has been described as the "doyen of British cellists".-Early life:Julian Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber and his wife Jean Johnstone . He is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber...

ex-Gendron; ex-Lord Speyer 1693 Edgar Speyer
Edgar Speyer
Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet was an American-born financier and philanthropist. He became a British subject in 1892 and was chairman of Speyer Brothers, the British branch of his family's international finance house, and a partner in the German and American branches...

; Kunststiftung NRW
Kunststiftung NRW
Kunststiftung NRW is a foundation created by the government of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia. It was established on September 12, 1989 and started operation in spring 1990...

on loan to Maria Kliegel
Maria Kliegel
-Professional career:Kliegel was born in Dillenburg, Hesse. She studied under Janos Starker starting at the age of 19. She won first prize at the American College Competition, First German Music Competition and Concours Aldo Parisot, and was also the Grand Prize winner at the 2nd Mstislav...

; previously loaned to Maurice Gendron
Maurice Gendron
Maurice Gendron was a French cellist and teacher. He is widely considered one of the greatest French cellists of the twentieth century....

 (1958-1990)
Spanish Court or Decorado 1694 Patrimonio Nacional
Patrimonio Nacional
The Consejo de Administración del Patrimonio Nacional is a Spanish state agency, under the jurisdiction of the Minister of the Presidency by delegation of the Prime Minister of Spain, that administers the sites owned by the Spanish...

, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain
collectively known as Quinteto Real or Quinteto Palatino (The Royal Quintet or Palace Quintet) when included with the violin duo, los Decorados (Spanish I and II 1687-1689), Bajo Palatino cello of 1700 and the Spanish Court viola of 1696. Is the original quartert
Bajo Palatino 1700 Patrimonio Nacional
Patrimonio Nacional
The Consejo de Administración del Patrimonio Nacional is a Spanish state agency, under the jurisdiction of the Minister of the Presidency by delegation of the Prime Minister of Spain, that administers the sites owned by the Spanish...

, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain
collectively known as Quinteto Palatino or Quinteto Palatino (The Royal Quintet or Palace Quintet) when included with the violin duo, los Decorados (Spanish I and II 1687-1689), Spanish Court cello of 1694 and the Spanish Court viola of 1696.
Bonjour
Bonjour Stradivarius
The Bonjour Stradivari cello was made by famous luthier Antonio Stradivari 1692. The instrument is named after the amateur 19th-century Parisian cellist Abel Bonjour....

1696 Abel Bonjour
Canada Council for the Arts
on loan to Rachel Mercer
Lord Aylesford 1696 on loan to Danjulo Ishizaka; previously loaned to Janos Starker
János Starker
János Starker |Kingdom of Hungary]]) is a Hungarian-American cellist. Since 1958 he has taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he holds the title of Distinguished Professor.- Child prodigy :...

 (1950-1965)
Castelbarco 1697 Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall
Cristiani 1700 Elise Barbier Cristiani
Jean Pierre Duport
On display at Stradivarius Collection in Civic Museum of Cremona
Servais
Servais Stradivarius
The Servais Stradivarius is an antique cello crafted in 1701 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona . It is one of only sixty-three extant cellos attributed to his handicraft...

1701 National Museum of American History
National Museum of American History
The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. Among the items on display are the original Star-Spangled Banner and Archie Bunker's...

on loan to Anner Bylsma
Anner Bylsma
Anner Bylsma is a Dutch cellist who plays on both modern, and period instruments in an historically informed baroque style. He took an interest in music from an early age...

;
Paganini-Countess of Stanlein 1707 Bernard Greenhouse
Bernard Greenhouse
Bernard Greenhouse was an American cellist and one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio.-Life:Greenhouse was born in Newark, New Jersey. He started his professional studies with Felix Salmond at the Juilliard School when he was eighteen...

on loan to Truls Mørk
Truls Mørk
Truls Olaf Otterbech Mørk is a Norwegian cellist.Mørk was born in Bergen, Norway, the son of two professional musicians, his father a cellist and his mother a pianist. His mother began teaching him the piano when he was seven...

Boccherini; Romberg 1709 Used by the father of cellists, Pablo Casals
Pablo Casals
Pau Casals i Defilló , known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time...

.
Markevitch; Delphino 1709 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

Gore Booth; Baron Rothschild 1710 Rocco Filippini
Duport
Duport Stradivarius
The Duport Stradivarius is a cello made in 1711 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. The instrument is named after Jean-Louis Duport, who played it around 1800. In 1812, Duport permitted Napoleon Bonaparte to handle it; a dent, still visible on the instrument, is said to have resulted...

1711 Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

 (1974-2007)
Mara 1711 Heinrich Schiff
Heinrich Schiff
Heinrich Schiff is an Austrian cellist and conductor. He studied cello with Tobias Kühne and André Navarra and made his solo debut in Vienna and London in 1971...

Davidov
Davidov Stradivarius
The Davidov Stradivarius , is an antique cello fabricated in 1712 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy. It is very similar in construction and form to the equally famed Duport Stradivarius built a year earlier and played by Mstislav Rostropovich until his death in 2007...

1712 Count Matvei Wielhorski (1794–1866)
Karl Davidov
Karl Davidov
Karl Yulievich Davydov , was a Russian cellist of great renown during his time, and described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "tsar of cellists". Arensky dedicated his first piano trio to Davydov's memory. He was also a composer, mainly for the cello....


Jacqueline du Pré
Jacqueline du Pré
Jacqueline Mary du Pré OBE was a British cellist. She is particularly associated with Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor; her interpretation has been described as "definitive" and "legendary." Her career was cut short by multiple sclerosis, which forced her to stop performing at 28 and led to her...

on loan to Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...

.
Batta 1714 J. P. Thibout
Alexander Batta; W.E. Hill & Sons; Baron Johann Knoop
Baron Johann Knoop
Baron Johann Knoop , was a collector of musical instruments who possessed a total of 29 great violins, violas, and cellos at one time or another including some four Stradivari violas...

; Gregor Piatigorsky
Gregor Piatigorsky
Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.-Early life:...

Currently displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...

, New York
de Vaux 1717 on loan to Adam Klocek.
Amaryllis Fleming 1717 ex-Blair-Oliphant, ex-Hegar, ex-Kühn, ex-Küchler Owned by the late Amaryllis Fleming, half sister to writers Ian and Peter Fleming. Neck, head and table are not original, after extensive repairs in 18th century by Spanish luthier, Jose Contreras
José Contreras
José Ariel Contreras Camejo is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher who is currently with the Philadelphia Phillies...

.
Becker 1719
Piatti 1720 Carlos Prieto
Vaslin 1723 LVMH
LVMH
LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A., better known as LVMH, is a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate headquartered in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The company was formed after the 1987 merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton with Moët Hennessy, a company formed after the 1971 merger...

on loan to Tatjana Vassilieva
Baudiot 1725 Gregor Piatigorsky
Chevillard 1725 Museu da Música (Lisbon)
Marquis de Corberon; ex-Loeb 1726 Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

Was once owned by Hugo Becker
Hugo Becker
for french actor see Hugo BeckerHugo Becker was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden.He was born in 1863 in Strasbourg; his father Jean Becker was a famous violinist...

. Later owned by Audrey Melville who bequeathed it to the RAM in 1960. Her friend Zara Nelsova
Zara Nelsova
Zara Nelsova was a prominent cellist.She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to parents of Russian descent, and first performed at the age of five in Winnipeg...

 had lifelong possession of it, until her death in 2002, as a condition of Melville's bequest.
Comte de Saveuse 1726 Comte de Saveuse d'Abbeville, Edward Latter, Archibald Hartnell, Michael Edmonds, subsequently lent to Michael Evans.
Benvenuti 1727 owned by Maurice Hasson
Maurice Hasson
Maurice Hasson , is a French-Venezuelan violinist and a professor of violin at the Royal Academy of Music.-Biography:Born in France in 1934, and studied violin at the Paris Conservatoire, where he won a First Prize for Violin and a "Grand Prix" for chamber music...

De Munck; ex-Feuermann
De Munck Stradivarius
The De Munck; Feuermann; Gardiner Stradivarius of 1730 is an antique cello crafted by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari....

1730 Emmanuel Feuermann
Aldo Parisot
Aldo Parisot
Aldo Simoes Parisot is a Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher, was formerly a member of the Juilliard School faculty, and currently is serving as a professor of music at the Yale School of Music....


Nippon Music Foundation
on loan to Steven Isserlis
Steven Isserlis
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Pawle 1730 Chi Mei Museum
Braga 1731 played by Myung-wha Chung
Myung-wha Chung
Myung-Wha Chung is a Korean cellist.- Biography :Myung-wha Chung was born in 1944 in Seoul, South Korea, to a musical family...

Stuart 1732 Steven Honigberg
Steven Honigberg
Steven Honigberg is an American cellist. He is a member of the National Symphony Orchestra and the Potomac String Quartet, and solos frequently; he is also known as a well-reviewed performer from David Ott's premier of Concerto for Two Cellos. From 1994-2002, Honigberg served as chamber music...

Paganini-Ladenburg 1736 Nippon Music Foundation this cello along with the Paganini-Desaint violin of 1686, the Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727, and the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola of 1731, compose a group of instruments referred to as the Paganini Quartet
Paganini Quartet
The Paganini Quartet was a virtuoso string quartet founded by its first violinist, Henri Temianka, in 1946. The quartet drew its name from the fact that all four of its instruments, made by Antonio Stradivari , had once been owned by the great Italian violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini...

; on loan to Clive Greensmith of the Tokyo String Quartet

Guitars

There are two complete extant guitars by Stradivari, and a few fragments of others, including the neck of a third guitar which is owned by the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris. These guitars have ten (doubled) strings, which was typical of the era.
Sobriquet Year Provenance Notes
Hill 1688 Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum
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 at Oxford University
ex-Kabayao-Dolfus Stradivarius 1724.
Rawlins 1700 National Music Museum
National Music Museum
The National Music Museum: America's Shrine to Music & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments is a musical instrument museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, USA. It was founded in 1973 on the campus of the University of South Dakota...

 South Dakota

Harps

The only Stradivarius harp to survive today is the arpetta (little harp), owned by San Pietro a Maiella Music Conservatory
Music Conservatories of Naples
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 in Naples, Italy.

Mandolins

There are two known extant Stradivari mandolin
Mandolin
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s. The Cutler-Challen Choral Mandolino of 1680, is currently in the collection of the National Music Museum
National Music Museum
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 at the University of South Dakota
University of South Dakota
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 in Vermillion, South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota
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. The other, dated ca. 1706, is owned by private collector Charles Beare of London.
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