This is alist of Stradivarius string instruments made by members of the house ofAntonio Stradivari.
This list has 282 entries.
| Sobriquet | Year | Provenance | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alumnas Amati, Ashby, Silvestre, Serdet | 1666 | Possibly the earliest known violin by Stradivari. The instrument was last sold byJ & A Beare. One of a few instruments that has a connection between Stradivarius andNicola Amati, with whom Stradivarius may have worked as an apprentice. The violin includes the label Alumnus Nicolais Amati.[1] | |
| ex-Sachs | c. 1666 | Madame Sachs | Historically important and one of the earliest known violins by Stradivari. In 2008 for sale by Poesis Fine Instruments.[2] |
| ex Back | c. 1666 | Fridart Foundation | The violin shows influence from Amati and the model is based on Amati's violins, but the narrow purfling differs from Amati's style.[3] |
| c. 1666 | The violin was owned byEugene Sarbu.[4] | ||
| Aranyi | 1667 | Francis Aranyi (collector) | Sold atSotheby's London, 12 November 1986.[5] |
| Dubois | 1667 | Canimex Inc. | On display at theChimei Museum. |
| ex-Captain Saville | 1667 | Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume Captain Saville (1901–1907) | Currently on loan toAndré Rieu.[6] |
| Ex Jenkins, Jenkins-Thompson | 1667 | Sold at Sotheby's in 1995.[7][8] | |
| Piet – Beare-Biddulph | 1667 | Owned by Charles Beare & Peter until 1990 and sold atMachold Rare Violins in 2001.[9][10] | |
| Amatese | 1668 | Though listed in many reference books as one of Stradivari's earliest instruments, the modern consensus is that it is not a Stradivarius; it was sold at Sotheby's New York on 3 February 1982 as "an interesting violin".[11] | |
| Canadian | 1668 | Sold at Kenneth Warren & Son in Chicago (1991).[12][13] | |
| Golden Bell | ca.1668 | Played bySimone Zgraggen.[14] | |
| Clisbee, Francalucci | 1669 | Mrs. Clisbee | On exhibition atMuseo del Violino, Cremona, Italy, since 2003.[15][16] |
| Hill[17] | 1669 | ||
| Oistrakh | 1671 | Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Glinka Museum, Moscow | Previously owned byDavid Oistrakh, who inherited it in 1969 under the will of Queen Elisabeth. He never performed with this instrument, constructed in theNicola Amati style, because of the short scale, uncomfortable for his hand. Oistrakh's widow presented the violin to the Glinka Museum.[18] It was stolen in May 1996, but recovered in 2001.[19] |
| Sellière | 1672 | Charles IV of Spain | |
| Spanish; ex-Faltin | 1678 | Finnish Cultural Foundation | On loan toElina Vähälä.[20] In 2011 it was revealed that the instrument was actually made byGirolamo Amati.[21] |
| Hellier | 1679 | Sir Samuel Hellier | Smithsonian Institution |
| Paganini-Desaint | 1680 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | This violin, and thePaganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727, thePaganini-Mendelssohn viola 1731 and thePaganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, comprise thePaganini Quartet; the foundation owns more than a dozen Stradivari instruments. On loan to Florian Schötz from Goldmund Quartet. |
| 1680 | The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei. | ||
| 1681 | Reynier and Count de Lachenais | Presumably presented byNapoleon III to the French violinistLéon Reynier, who sold it to Count de Lachenais of Marseilles in 1881. By the intermediary of Albert Caressa, it became part of the collection of John Wanamaker in 1924, when it was acquired by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. in 1929. Its last known owner wasMiles Franklin Yount. Reynier also owned a 1727 violin (see below).[23] | |
| Fleming | 1681 | ||
| Bucher | 1683 | On loan toAlma Deutscher since 2019. The loan is administered by the Tarisio Trust. | |
| Derpinina | 1683 | ||
| Cipriani Potter | 1683 | Cipriani Potter | |
| Cobbett;ex-Holloway | 1683 | On loan to Sejong Soloists, New York City, brokered by the Stradivari Society.[24] | |
| ex-Croall | 1684 | WestLB | |
| ex-Elphinstone | 1684 | Owned since 2005 by Philip Greenberg, artistic director and conductor of theKyiv Philharmonic in Ukraine. | |
| The Marquis | 1685 | Marchese Spinola Mark Kaplan | |
| ex-Arma Senkrah | 1685 | The Ruggeri – Stiftung | On loan to Bogdan Bozovic. |
| ex-Castelbarco | 1685 | ||
| Eugenie, ex-Mackenzie | 1685 | anonymous | On loan to Swang Lin, associate concertmaster,Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.[25] |
| ex-Nachez | 1686 | Dr. Winfred and Mr. John Constable.[26] | |
| Rosenheim | 1686 | William Rosenheim.[27] | |
| Goddard | 1686 | Miss Goddard; Antonio Fortunato.[28] | |
| Ex Bello, Marie Law | 1687 |
| On loan to Maristella Patuzzi.[29] The Stradivari was used to record the Decca albumIntimamente Tango (2015, No. 481 1489) and a new Violin concerto by Manuel De Sica published by Brilliant Classics (2014, No. 94905). |
| Ole Bull | 1687 | Ole Bull (1844) Herbert Axelrod (1985–1997) | Donated to theSmithsonian Institution in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod; now part of theAxelrod quartet. |
| Mercur-Avery | 1687 | On loan to Jonathan Carney, concertmaster of theBaltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2002. | |
| 1688 | The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei. | ||
| Baumgartner | 1689 | Canada Council for the Arts | On loan to Emma Meinrenken until 2021.[30] |
| Arditi | 1689 | Dextra musica AS, Norway | On loan toElise Båtnes,concertmaster of theOslo Philharmonic. |
| Spanish I | 1689? | Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain.[31][32] | Part of a duo of violins (Spanish I and II) referred to aslos Decorados andlos Palatinos; also collectively known asdel Cuarteto Real (The Royal Quartet) when included with theSpanish Court viola (1696) and cello (1694). |
| Spanish II | 1689? | Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain.[31][32] | Part of a duo of violins (Spanish I and II) referred to aslos Decorados andlos Palatinos; also collectively known asdel Cuarteto Real (The Royal Quartet) when included with theSpanish Court viola (1696) and cello (1694). |
| Ex-Leopold Auer | 1690 | Leopold Auer | On loan toVadim Gluzman brokered by the Stradivari Society.[24] |
| Bingham | 1690 | ||
| Theodor | 1690 | Named after its first known owner. | |
| Boissier-Sarasate | 1690 | Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid | Named after its owner, this violin is one of two Stradivarius instruments which previously belonged toNavarrese musicianPablo de Sarasate.[33] |
| Ex-Ries | 1691 | Reinhold Würth Music Foundation | On loan toJózsef Lendvay Jr. since 2008. Since October 2020 on loan to German violinist Veronika Eberle |
| Czar of Russia, Albrecht, Avery Fisher | 1692 | Juilliard School | Purchased byAvery Fisher in 1976. Donated to Juilliard School in 1991.[34] |
| Guttmann | 1692 | Juilliard School[35] | |
| Bennett | 1692 | Winterthur-Versicherungen | On loan to Hanna Weinmeister. |
| Falmouth | 1692 | Gert-Jan Kramer.[36] | On loan toAlexander Kerr, concertmaster,Dallas Symphony Orchestra. |
| Queux de Saint-Hilaire | c.1692 | Musée de la Musique, Paris | Long-pattern (longuet). Donated in 1890. On display at the museum.[37] |
| Gould | 1693 | Bequeathed by Gould to the Metropolitan Museum in 1955.[39] | |
| Harrison | 1693 |
| In the collection of theNational Music Museum inVermillion, South Dakota.[40] |
| Baillot–Pommerau | 1694 | Pierre Baillot | Formerly owned byArthur Catterall, then byAlfredo Campoli.[41] |
| ex-Halíř orStrad Halir 1694 | 1694 |
| Karel Halíř premiered with this instrument the new version ofSibelius'sViolin Concerto on 19 October 1905, withRichard Strauss conducting theBerlin Court Orchestra. |
| Francesca | 1694 | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Bequest ofNanna Matthews Bryant, 1933.[42] |
| Rutson | 1694 | Royal Academy of Music | Played byClio Gould.[43] |
| Fetzer | 1695 | ||
| Lincoln | 1695 | Bequeathed to the people ofLincoln in 1970 by Mrs.Dudley Pelham on condition that it be loaned to theHallé Orchestra for the use of their leader.[44] | |
| 1696 | Owned by Korean-born classical musician,Min-Jin Kym. It was stolen atEuston Station in London in 2010, but recovered in 2013 and was auctioned for £1.38M[45][46][47] to English violinistAndrew Bernardi. | ||
| Haddock, Cator, Rostal | 1697 |
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| Paganini | 1697 | Niccolò Paganini | Dima Bilan, together withEvgeni Plushenko andEdvin Marton playing his Stradivarius, won theEurovision Song Contest 2008.[49] |
| Molitor[50] | 1697 |
| Thought to previously belong toNapoleon Bonaparte. Sold byTarisio Auctions for $3,600,000, a new world record,[54] until theLady Blunt was sold on 20 June 2011. |
| Cecilia C A (Capitulum Agriense) | 1697 | Owned byZelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum from 2011, and loaned toKatalin Kokas for five years.[55] | Johann Ladislaus Pyrker, 1827; an unknown Protestant or Jewish religious identity, 1945;Aranymúzeum, 2011 |
| Cabriac | 1698 | ||
| Baron Knoop | 1698 | One of eleven Stradivari violins associated withBaron Johann Knoop. | |
| Joachim-Kortschak-Field | 1698 | Owned byJoseph Joachim 1886–1898,Hugo Kortschak 1925 andJoan Field 1958–1968. | |
| Duc de Camposelice | 1699 | Cho-Liang Lin | |
| Lady Tennant; Lafont | 1699 | Charles Phillipe Lafont Marguerite Agaranthe Tennant | On loan toXiang Gao brokered by the Stradivari Society;[24] sold at Christie's auction US$2.032 million, April 2005.[56] |
| Countess Polignac | 1699 | On loan toGil Shaham. | |
| Castelbarco | 1699 | United StatesLibrary of Congress | Presented byGertrude Clarke Whittall.[57] |
| Kustendyke | 1699 | Royal Academy of Music | |
| Crespi | 1699 | Fridart Foundation | |
| ex-Berglund | 1699 | Finnish Cultural Foundation (Suomen Kulttuurirahasto) | Previously owned by conductorPaavo Berglund. Purchased from Berglund's estate by the Finnish Cultural Foundation in June 2012.[58] On loan to Antti Tikkanen.[59] |
| ex-Beatrice Mulgan | 1699 | Victoria and Albert Museum | Bequatehed by Beatrice Mulgan to theVictoria and Albert Museum in 1937.[60] |
| Sobriquet | Year | Provenance | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berger | 1700 |
| Currently in possession of Bein & Fushi Violins.[61] |
| ex-Berglund | 1699 | Finnish Cultural Foundation (Suomen Kulttuurirahasto) | Previously owned by conductorPaavo Berglund. Purchased from Berglund's estate by the Finnish Cultural Foundation in June 2012.[58] On loan to Antti Tikkanen.[59] |
| The Penny | 1700 | Barbara Penny | |
| Petri | 1700 | Henri Petri[62] | |
| Dragonetti | 1700 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | Formerly owned byAlfredo Campoli, now played byVeronika Eberle. |
| Jupiter | 1700 | Giovanni Battista Viotti | Owned and played since 1964 by Arnold Belnick, Los Angeles, California. |
| Russian, Margaret, Berson[63] | 1700 | ||
| Taft; ex-Emil Heermann | 1700 | Canada Council for the Arts | On loan toNikki Chooi[64] who was from 2009 to 2012 the recipient of the Council's 1729 Guarneri, now on loan to Chooi's younger brotherTimothy Chooi.[65] |
| Taylor, Heberlein | 1700 | San Francisco Symphony | Owned by theSan Francisco Symphony since 2002.[66] |
| Ward | 1700 | United StatesLibrary of Congress | Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall.[67] |
| Circle, Nachez[68] | 1701 | ||
| Court Strad[69] | 1701 | ||
| Deveault | 1701 | Guy and Maryse Deveault | On loan toAlexandre Da Costa |
| Dushkin, Sandler | 1701 | Samuel Dushkin, Albert Sandler | On loan toDennis Kim, concertmaster, Pacific Symphony. |
| Ferraresi | 1701 | Herbert R. Axelrod,New Jersey Symphony | Sold at Ingles & Hayday in 2016.[70] |
| Kreutzer, von Hautem | 1701 | Rodolphe Kreutzer,Uto Ughi[71] | |
| Markees | 1701 | Music Chamber of Hong Kong | |
| Brodsky | 1702 |
| Named afterAdolph Brodsky who premieredTchaikovsky'sViolin Concerto on this violin on 4 December 1881. On loan toKirill Troussov since 2006. Previously played byAdolf Brodsky,Alexander Schneider andIsidore Cohen. |
| Irish | 1702 | Pohjola Bank Art Foundation, Finland | On loan toRebecca Roozeman.[72] |
| Campoli | 1702 | Alfredo Campoli (1959–1961) | Sold by W. E. Hill & Sons in 1961.[73] |
| Conte de Fontana;ex-Oistrakh | 1702 | Pro Canale Foundation | Loaned toPavel Berman.[74] Previously owned byDavid Oistrakh (1959–1966). After the 1736Yusupov it was his second Strad, bought in Paris in 1959 and traded in 1966 for the 1705Marsick.[18] |
| De La Taille | 1702 | Rafael Druian (1948–1961)[75] | On loan to Mihail Ion |
| Lukens; Edler; Voicu | 1702 | A. W. Lukens Charles Edler | On loan toAlexandru Tomescu until 2023.[76][77] |
| Lord Borwick | 1702 |
| On loan to Ririko Takagi.[78] |
| King Maximilian Joseph | 1702 |
| Lifetime loan to Berent Korfker.[80] |
| Lyall | 1702 | Formerly owned byUniversity of Western Ontario | Players of the violin includeStefan Milenkovich andLara St. John.[81] |
| Lord Newlands | 1702 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | On loan to Suyoen Kim.[82] |
| Wondra Bey[83] | 1702 | ||
| 1703 | George Schlieps,Herbert R. Axelrod (1987–2003),New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (2003–2007)[84] | ||
| Antonio Stradivari | 1703 | Bundesrepublik Deutschland | Exhibited atMusikinstrumentenmuseum, Berlin.[85] |
| La Rouse Boughton | 1703 | Oesterreichische Nationalbank[86] | On loan to Boris Kuschnir of theKopelman Quartet. |
| Allegretti[87] | 1703 | ||
| Alsager | 1703 | Previously sold byW. E. Hill & Sons, Hamma & Co. and Henry Werro.[88] | |
| Aurora, ex-Foulis | 1703 | On loan toKaren Gomyo.[89] | |
| Cobbett, Dickson-Poynder | 1703 | Walter Willson Cobbett | Certificate byW. E. Hill & Sons notes that violin is from 1703, even though label says 1715. Sold bySotheby's in 1972.[90] |
| Emiliani | 1703 | Ludwig Strauss, violinistEva Mudocci, violinist, harpist Charlene Dilling Brewer,Anne-Sophie Mutter (since 1979)[91] | |
| Ford | 1703 | Sir William Curtis,Elias Breeskin,Henry Ford | Since 2003, at theHenry Ford Museum.[92] |
| Lady Harmsworth | 1703 | Paul Bartel | On loan toKristóf Baráti by arrangement with the Stradivarius Society of Chicago.[93] |
| de Rougemont, Gordon, Hart | 1703 | Luigi Tarisio, violinist Godfrey Ludlow,[94]Henry Ford[95] | |
| Rynberger, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia | 1703 | Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia[96] | On exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum. |
| Schoofs, Vidoudez, Huber, Steiner-Schweitzer | 1703 | Mischa Elman | Sold by Bongartz's in 1998.[97] |
| Betts | 1704 | United StatesLibrary of Congress | Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall.[98] |
| ex-Liebig | 1704 | Baron Liebig Wolfgang Schneiderhan Rony Rogoff | Owned by Baron Liebig from 1911; Owned byWolfgang Schneiderhan from 1952 to 1991; Owned by Rony Rogoff (1991–2004)[99] Currently owned by Dkfm Angelika Prokopp Privatstiftung,[99] on loan to Julian Rachlin.[100] |
| Glennie | 1704 | John Edward Betts (19th century) | Sold at W. E. Hill & Sons in 1953.[101] |
| Prince Obolensky | 1704 | On loan to Esther Yoo. | |
| Sleeping Beauty | 1704 | L-Bank | On loan toIsabelle Faust. One of the few Stradivari violins to have retained its original neck. |
| Viotti | 1704 | Giovanni Battista Viotti (late 18th century to early 19th century) | Part of the Monetsugu Collectio in Tokyo, Japan (since c. 2010).[102] |
| Baron von der Leyen | 1705 | Private owner | Auctioned byTarisio on 26 April 2012 for $2.6 million.[103] |
| ex-Marsick; ex-Oistrakh | 1705 | David Fulton | Previously owned byDavid Oistrakh (1966–1974), acquired in trade for the 1702Conte di Fontana.[18] Currently on loan toJames Ehnes.[104] |
| ex-Tadolini | 1706 | The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei. | |
| Charles Castleman, ex-Marquis de Champeaux | 1707 |
| On loan to Miclen LaiPang by the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel[105] |
| ex-Brüstlein | 1707 | Oesterreichische Nationalbank[86] | |
| La Cathédrale | 1707 | Nigel Kennedy | |
| ex-Prihoda | 1707 | Luz Leskowitz | Previously owned by Czech violinistVáša Příhoda, teacher ofLuz Leskowitz.[106] |
| Hammer | 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.[107][108] |
| 1707 | Russian State Collection, Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow.[109] | ||
| Rivaz, Baron Gutmann | 1707 | J & A Beare[110] Dextra Musica since 2016 | Formerly on loan toJanine Jansen. On loan toEldbjørg Hemsing[111] |
| Davidoff | 1708 | Musée de la Musique, Paris | Bequeathed to the museum in 1887. |
| Tua | 1708 | Musée de la Musique, 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[22] | On loan to the most recent winner of theQueen Elisabeth Competition for violin, currentlyStella Chen winner of the 2019 edition.[112] |
| Empress Caterina | 1708 | Loaned to Brett Yang and Eddy Chen ofTwoSet Violin in 2022.[113] | |
| Regent, Superb | 1708 | Owned by the Fridart Foundation. | Loaned to Brett Yang and Eddy Chen ofTwoSet Violin in 2022.[113] |
| Ruby | 1708 | On loan to Chen Xi brokered by the Stradivari Society.[24] | |
| Strauss | 1708 | On loan toClara-Jumi Kang brokered by the Stradivari Society.[24] | |
| Greffuhle | 1709 | Donated to theSmithsonian Institution in 1997 byHerbert R. Axelrod. Now part of theAxelrod quartet. | |
| Berlin Hochschule | 1709 | ||
| ex-Hämmerle; ex-Adler | 1709 | Oesterreichische Nationalbank[86] | On loan to Rainer Honeck. |
| Ernst | 1709 | Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, circa 1850–1865 Wilma Neruda, 1872 | On loan toDénes Zsigmondy through 2003. |
| Engleman | 1709 | Nippon Music Foundation.[22] | On loan to Bora Kim. Previously loaned toTimothy Chooi, andBenjamin Beilman [fr] |
| King Maximilian; Unico | 1709 | Axel Springer Foundation | On loan toMichel Schwalbé, concertmaster of theBerlin Philharmonic (1966–1986);[114] reported stolen in 1999.[115] |
| Viotti; ex-Bruce | 1709 | Royal Academy of Music | Allocated to the Royal Academy of Music after acquisition by HM Government in July 2005 in lieu ofinheritance tax, with additional funding from theNational Heritage Memorial Fund,National Art Collections Fund,J & A Beare, The Belmont Trust, Nigel Brown, members of the Bruce family,Albert Frost CBE, Elizabeth Insall, Ian Stoutzker OBE,Old Possum's Practical Trust, BBC Two'sThe Culture Show and anonymous donors. |
| ex-Nachéz | 1709 |
| Previously played byElisabetta Garetti. Now played by Roman Simovic, Leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, courtesy of Jonathan Moulds, chair of the LSO Advisory Council.[116][117] |
| Marie Hall | 1709 | Giovanni Battista Viotti Chimei Museum | Named after violinistMarie Hall. |
| ex-Scotta | 1709 | On loan toPekka Kuusisto. | |
| La Pucelle | 1709 | Huguette Clark[118] David L. Fulton[118] | Parisian dealerJean 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.[33] |
| Camposelice | 1710 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | It was on loan to Svetlin Roussev. Since 2023 it has been loaned toMaría Dueñas. |
| Lord Dunn–Raven | 1710 | Anne-Sophie Mutter | |
| ex-Roederer | 1710 | On loan toDavid Grimal. (Owned byAyla Erduran for 37 years). | |
| ex-Vieuxtemps | 1710 | Purchased 1900 byLeopold Geissmar, a lawyer and amateur musician inMannheim. His daughterBerta had it in 1944.[119] | Not to be confused with the Vieuxtemps-Hauser violin on loan to Samuel Magad, concertmaster 1972–2007,Chicago Symphony Orchestra. |
| Dancla Stradivarius (1703) | 1703 | Linus Roth | The Dancla is now owned by theLandesbank Baden-Württemberg and on loan to renowned German violinistLinus Roth.[120][121] |
| Dancla Stradivarius (1708) | 1708 | In 1913 luthiers ofCaressa & Français wrote a letter stating that the violin was "fully authentic, totally guaranteed and in a remarkable state of conservation"[122] | |
| Dancla Stradivarius (1710) | 1710 | Toshiya Eto | The violin is sometimes classified as the "Dancla Milstein" because it was owned and used in performances by American virtuoso violinistNathan Milstein.[123] |
| Davis | 1710 | Mr. and Mrs. William S. Davis | On loan to Michael Shih, concertmaster,Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.[124] |
| ex-Kittel | 1710 | Russian State Collection, Glinka Museum, Moscow.[125] | |
| The Antonius | 1711 | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Bequest of Annie Bolton Matthews Bryant, 1933.[126] |
| the Lady Inchiquin | 1711 | Previously owned byFritz Kreisler. | Played byFrank Peter Zimmermann, a German banking companyWestLB AG bought it for his use.[127] |
| Earl of Plymouth; Kreisler | 1711 | Los Angeles Philharmonic[128] | Found in a storeroom on the estate of theEarl of Plymouth in 1925; purchased by Fritz Kreisler in 1928 and subsequently sold by him in 1946.[129] |
| Liegnitz | 1711 | Previously owned bySzymon Goldberg. | |
| Viotti | 1712 | Giovanni Battista Viotti Henry Hottinger Collection | Owned since 1965 by Isaac Hurwitz. |
| Le Fountaine | 1712 | This is a 'Violino piccolo' from 1712 – slightly shorter than a regular violin, measuring 475mm from top to bottom, 100mm shorter than a regular instrument.[33] | |
| Le Brun | 1712 |
| Sold at Sotheby's auction on 13 November 2001. From November 2015 to January 2016 was on loan to Kiril Laskarov, concertmaster of theArkansas Symphony Orchestra.[130] |
| Karpilowsky | 1712 | Harry Solloway | Missing: stolen in 1953 from Solloway's residence inLos Feliz.[131] |
| Dubois | 1713 | Canimex, Inc | On loan toNikki Chooi since 2023 |
| Schreiber | 1713 | ||
| Antonio Stradivari | 1713 | ||
| Boissier-Sarasate | 1713 | Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid | Sarasate legancy 1909 |
| Daniel | 1713 | On loan toJuan Pablo Reynoso | |
| Sancy | 1713 | Ivry Gitlis | |
| Gibson | 1713 | Stolen twice fromHuberman. | |
| Lady Ley | 1713 | Stradivarius family | Owned byJue Yao, Chinese violinist. |
| Wirth | 1713 |
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| Dolphin; Delfino | 1714 | Jascha Heifetz Nippon Music Foundation[22] | On loan toTimothy Chooi and previously loaned toRay Chen. Named the "Dolphin" in the 19th century by George Hart, because the back of the violin, with its shape and its shimmering colour, reminded him of a dolphin. |
| Soil | 1714 |
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| ex-Berou;ex-Thibaud | 1714 | Jacques Thibaud | Previously owned byDavid Oistrakh (his first Stradivarius, bought in the US in 1956).[132] |
| Le Maurien | 1714 | Missing: stolen 2002.[133] | |
| Leonora Jackson | 1714 | Leonora Jackson, William Sloan Collection | |
| Massart | 1714 | Lambert Massart György Pauk | |
| Joachim–Ma | 1714 | Joseph Joachim,Si-hon Ma,New England Conservatory of Music | Bequeathed to the New England Conservatory by Ma in 2009, it was sold at auction for $11.3 in February 2025 to fund a new scholarship.[134] |
| Sinsheimer; General Kyd; Perlman | 1714 | Itzhak Perlman David L. Fulton | Formerly loaned toNadja Salerno-Sonnenberg |
| Smith-Quersin | 1714 | Oesterreichische Nationalbank[86] | On loan to Rainer Honeck, theVienna Philharmonic leader. |
| Alard-Baron Knoop | 1715 | Juan Luis Prieto | Named for French violinistJean-Delphin Alard. Sold at auction in 1981 to a collector in Singapore for $1.2 million.[33] |
| Baron Knoop; ex-Bevan | 1715 | Ex Fulton, sold in March 2025 to an anonymous buyer for $23 million[135] | |
| ex-Bazzini | 1715 | On loan to Matteo Fedeli.[136] | |
| Cremonese;ex-Harold;Joseph Joachim | 1715 | Joseph Joachim Municipality of Cremona | On exhibition at Museo del Violino, Cremona, Italy.[15] |
| Emperor | 1715 |
| Sold toJan Kubelík in 1910 for £10,000. |
| Duke of Cambridge;ex-Pierre Rode | 1715 |
| Janine Jansen (since Sept 2020 – courtesy of a European benefactor)[137] |
| Joachim | 1715 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | the ’Joachim-Aranyi’ is so named as it once belonged to Joseph Joachim, who bequeathed it to his great-niece Adela d’Aranyi.[138] It was loaned to Angelo Xiang Yu in 2019.[139] The foundation announced its loan to Japanese violinistRisa Hokamura, Silver medalist of the 2018 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, in 2023.[138] |
| Lipiński | 1715 | Giuseppe Tartini | On loan toMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster,Frank Almond.[140] Stolen in an armed robbery on 27 January 2014[141] and subsequently recovered.[142] |
| Marsick | 1715 | James Ehnes | |
| Titian | 1715 | Cho-Liang Lin | Previously owned byEfrem Zimbalist.[143] Purchased byFelix M. Warburg circa 1926 as part of a quartet set for the Institute of Musical Art's Musical Art Quartet, played bySascha Jacobsen.[143][144] |
| Ex Adolf Busch | 1716 | Owned byDavid Garrett since 2010. | |
| Berthier | 1716 | Baron Vecsey de Vecse Fondazione Pro Canale[145] | On loan toAnna Tifu[146] |
| Booth | 1716 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | On loan toArabella Steinbacher; formerly loaned toShunsuke Sato; formerly loaned toJulia Fischer.[22] |
| Cessole | 1716 | ||
| Cherubini | 1716 | Galleria dell'Accademia | On exhibition at the Galeria dell'Accademia (Gallery of the Academy of Florence) in Florence, Italy |
| Colossus | 1716 | Luigi Alberto Bianchi[147] | Missing; stolen in Rome, Italy, in November 1998.[148] |
| Duranti | 1716 | On loan to Mariko Senju since 2002.[149] | |
| Milstein ex Goldman | 1716 | Nathan Milstein | Sold byCharles Beare and the Milstein Family to Jerry Kohl. |
| Monasterio | 1716 | Ruggiero Ricci | Named after violinist and composerJesús de Monasterio.[150]Cyrus Forough. |
| Provigny | 1716 | Musée de la Musique, Paris | Bequeathed to the Museum in 1909. |
| Messiah-Salabue | 1716 | Ashmolean Museum Oxford | On exhibition at the Oxford Ashmolean Museum; made from the same tree as a P.G.Rogeri violin of 1710.[151] It is considered to be the only remaining Stradivarius violin inas new state. |
| ex-Windsor-Weinstein;Fite | 1716 | Canada Council for the Arts | On loan toTimothy Chooi.[64] |
| Baron Wittgenstein | 1716 | Bulgarian Ministry of Culture | Formerly owned by John Corigliano Sr. (former concertmaster of theNew York Philharmonic). On loan to Mincho Minchev 1977–2024. Now loaned to Svetlin Roussev till 2029. |
| Gariel | 1717 | Luigi Tarisio sold the ‘Gariel’ Stradivarius to another famous violin dealer,Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, who in turn sold it to the eminent French engineer, physician and founder member of the Academy of Science in Paris, Charles-Marie Gariel, the instrument's namesake. Gariel likely sold it on shortly before his death in 1924. | Owned by Jonathan Moulds, Chair of the LSO Advisory Council.[116] On long-term loan toNicola Benedetti.[152] |
| ex-Wieniawski | 1717 | Henryk Wieniawski | |
| ex-Baumgartner | 1717 | Rudolf Baumgartner,Lucerne Festival Strings | On loan to Daniel Dodds. |
| Toenniges | 1717 | Strad with theVuillaume Back Lawrence Welk Dick Kesner | Dick Kesner Paul Toenniges (Studio City, California) |
| Kochanski | 1717 | Pierre Amoyal Paweł Kochański | Stolen in 1987; recovered in 1991.[153] |
| Sasserno | 1717 | Nippon Music Foundation.[22] | Loaned toViviane Hagner until 2012. Loaned toAlina Pogostkina.[22] On loan to Ji Young Lim |
| Maurin | 1718 | Royal Academy of Music, London, Rutson Bequest | |
| Viotti;ex-Rosé | 1718 | Giovanni Battista Viotti Oesterreichische Nationalbank[86] | On loan to Volkhard Steude |
| Chanot-Chardon | 1718 | Timothy Baker Joshua Bell | Shaped like a guitar;[154] on loan toSimone Lamsma. |
| Firebird;ex-Saint Exupéry | 1718 | Salvatore Accardo | Named for the colouration of the varnish, and for the instrument's brilliant sound. |
| Marquis de Rivière | 1718 | Daniel Majeske | Played by Majeske whileconcertmaster of theCleveland Orchestra from 1969 to 1993. |
| San Lorenzo | 1718 | Georg Talbot | |
| ex-Count Vieri | 1718 | The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei. | |
| ex-Prové | 1718 | Played byIlya Gringolts | |
| Lauterbach | 1719 | Johann Christoph Lauterbach J.B. Vuillaume Charles Philippe Lafont[155] | |
| Zahn | 1719 | LVMH | |
| Wieniawski–Bower | 1719 | Henryk Wieniawski, Benz Mercedes Zurich | Loan to Klaidi Sahatci,Tonhalle Orchester Zurich Concertmaster. |
| Malakh | 1719 | Dr. L. Looby | Malakh House. Last played 1946. |
| Woolhouse | 1720 | Played byRudolf Koelman. | |
| ex-Bavarian | 1720 | Metropolitan Museum of Art | [156] |
| Madrileño | 1720 | ||
| von Beckerath | 1720 | Michael Antonello | |
| ex-Thibaud | 1720 | Jacques Thibaud | Destroyed in the crash ofAir France Flight 178 on 1 September 1953. |
| Sinsheimer; Iselin | 1721 | Stolen inHanover, Germany in 2008; recovered in 2009.[157] | |
| Lady Blunt | 1721 | Nippon Music Foundation.[22][158] | Named forLady Anne Blunt, daughter ofAda Lovelace (and granddaughter ofLord Byron). The Lady Blunt was last sold at London auction house Tarisio on 20 June 2011 for £9,808,000 (US$15.9 million), with proceeds going to the Nippon Foundation's Northeastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund.[159][160] |
| Jean-Marie Leclair | 1721 | Jean-Marie Leclair | On loan toGuido Rimonda.[161] |
| Red Mendelssohn | 1720 | Inspiration for the1998 film,The Red Violin Formerly part of the von Mendelssohn family quartet of Stradivari's in Berlin. | |
| Birsou | 1721 |
| Formerly owned byMetropolitan Museum of Art.Joan Field, an American violinist (1915–1988) also known as one of its owners, played the Birsou from 1921 to 1929. In 2002,Joshua Bell recordedO'mio Babbino Caro on the Birsou. |
| The MacMillan | 1721 | Tossy Spivakovsky | Loaned toRay Chen through Young Concert Artists from 2008 to 2012; on loan toNing Feng through Premiere Performances of Hong Kong (2012–present).[162] |
| Artot | 1722 | Lorin Maazel | |
| Jules Falk | 1723 | Viktoria Mullova | Bought by the American violinist Jules Falk in 1907. A child prodigy, Falk joined the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski aged 17 and was later music director of the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. He played this Stradivarius violin until his death in 1957. |
| Jupiter; ex-Goding | 1722 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | On loan toRyu Goto;[163] formerly toMidori Goto,Daishin Kashimoto, andManrico Padovani. |
| Laub–Petschnikoff | 1722 | ||
| Elman | 1722 | Chimei Museum | On loan toWilliam Wei |
| Cádiz | 1722 | Joseph Fuchs | On loan toJennifer Frautschi; named after the city ofCádiz, Spain. |
| Rode | 1722 | Currently used byErzhan Kulibaev by courtesy of theMaggini Foundation.[164] | |
| ex-Vallot | 1722 | Edwin Sherrard Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1989).[165] | 2015 restored by John K. Becker of Chicago. |
| Kiesewetter | 1723 | Christophe Kiesewetter Clement and Karen Arrison.[166] | On loan toPhilippe Quint brokered by the Stradivari Society.[24] Left by Quint in taxi on 21 April 2008 and recovered the following day. Since 2010, on loan toAugustin Hadelich, through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. |
| Earl Spencer | 1723 | On loan toNicola Benedetti.[167] | |
| Sarasate | 1724 |
| Owned by Cozio di Salabue, it was sold to Niccolò Paganini in 1817, at his death in 1840 by his son to Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, then to Pablo de Sarasate who bequeathed it in 1909 to theConservatoire de Musique in memory of his student days. On display at the museum.[169][170] |
| Ex-Szigeti, Ludwig | 1724 | Bears the inscription: "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1724". Since 1989 in the possession of theLandesbank Baden-Württemberg and is awarded to musicians to use. | |
| ex-Kavakos, Abergavenny | 1724 | Leonidas Kavakos played it from 2010 to 2017. | |
| Brancaccio | 1725 | Destroyed in an allied air raid on Berlin. | Owned byCarl Flesch until 1928; sold to Franz von Mendelssohn, banker and amateur violinist.[171] |
| Chaconne | 1725 | Oesterreichische Nationalbank[86] | On loan to Rainer Küchel. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | 1725 | Da Vinci family.[172] | |
| Lubbock | 1725 |
| Owned by French artist/musicianJean-Jacques Grasset until his death in 1839, owned and played by amateur musician Meugy and later owned and played by Miss Lubbock establishing its sobriquet asLubbock. |
| Wilhelmj | 1725 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | On loan toBaiba Skride; one of several Stradivari violins with the sobriquet"Wilhelmj". |
| Sobriquet | Year | Provenance | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hubay | 1726 |
| Played by Paganini, Hubay,Nai-Yuan Hu,Robert Gerle,Daniel Stabrawa. Currently played by Edvin Marton. |
| Greville; Kreisler; Adams | 1726 | Fritz Kreisler | |
| Baron Deurbroucq | 1727 |
| Formerly played by Janine Jansen |
| Barrere | 1727 | Formerly on loan toJanine Jansen, now on loan toRosanne Philippens [nl].[175] | |
| Benvenuti | 1727 | Owned byMaurice Hasson.[176] | |
| Davidoff-Morini | 1727 | Owned by violinistErica Morini, purchased for her by her father in Paris in 1924 for $10,000[177] | Missing: stolen in 1995.[177][178] |
| ex-General Dupont | 1727 | Arthur Grumiaux | On loan toFrank Peter Zimmermann. |
| Holroyd | 1727 | Owned byKoh Gabriel Kameda. | |
| Kreutzer | 1727 | Rodolphe Kreutzer,Maxim Vengerov | One of four Stradivari violins with the sobriquetKreutzer (1701, 1720, 1731). |
| ex-Reynier orLe Reynier;Hart;ex-Francescatti | 1727 | LVMH since 1993 or 1994 Salvatore Accardo | Named afterLéon Reynier who won at the Concervatoire de Paris in 1847. On loan toAugustin Dumay. Previously played byKirill Troussov (1997–2006) andMaxim Vengerov, who now owns and plays the StradivariusKreutzer. |
| Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue | 1727 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | This violin, and thePaganini-Desaint violin of 1680, thePaganini-Mendelssohn viola of 1731 and thePaganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, comprise thePaganini Quartet. On loan to Pinchas Adt from Goldmund Quartet. |
| Halphen | 1727 | Angelika Prokopp Private Foundation | On loan to Eckhard Seifert. |
| Vesuvius | 1727 | Antonio Brosa Remo Lauricella Town of Cremona | On exhibition at Museo del Violino, Cremona, Italy.[15] |
| 1727 | Suntory Foundation for Arts | On loan toShion Minami. | |
| A. J. Fletcher; Red Cross Knight | 1728 | A. J. Fletcher Foundation | On loan toNicholas Kitchen of theBorromeo String Quartet; the instrument was made by Omobono Stradivarius.[179] |
| 1728 | Australian Chamber Orchestra Instrument Fund[180] | On loan toSatu Vänskä, Assistant Leader of the orchestra. | |
| Artot–Alard | 1728 | Endre Balogh[181] | A copy of this instrument was produced in 1996 byGregg Alf andJoseph Curtin, using modern materials and methods;[182] Balogh performs on both the 1728 original and the replica.[183] |
| Artôt-Godowsky | 1728 | [184] | Named after first ownerAlexandre Artôt.[185] |
| Dragonetti-Milanollo | 1728 |
| On loan toCorey Cerovsek. |
| Perkins | 1728 | Los Angeles Philharmonic | Named for Frederick Perkins; formerly owned byLuigi Boccherini.[186] |
| Benny | 1729 | Jack Benny Los Angeles Philharmonic | Bequeathed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic by Jack Benny. |
| Solomon, ex-Lambert | 1729 | Murray Lambert Seymour Solomon | Sold atChristie's, New York for US$2,728,000 (€2,040,000).[187] |
| Innes | 1729 | On loan toEugen Sârbu; previously loaned toHenryk Wieniawski. | |
| Libon | 1729 | Felipe Libon Josef Suk[188] | |
| Guarneri | 1729 | Canada Council for the Arts | On loan toTimothy Chooi,[64] the younger brother of the 2009–2012 loan recipient Nikki Chooi, in 2012 named recipient of the Council's 1700Taft Stradivari[65] |
| Récamier | 1729 | Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry, Ltd. | On loan toSayaka Shoji. |
| Baldiani | 1730 |
| Sold for $338,500 atChristie's, New York, in October 2008.[189] |
| Accademia | 1730 | Seattle Symphony Orchestra - Tarisio - Accademia Concertante - owner unknown | Played by young talented musicians of Accademia Concertante d'Archi di Milano (Italy) - Information: Antonio Stradivari: The complete works - Beares publishing - V vol |
| Ex-Neveu | 1730 | Marcel Vatelot | Produced byOmobono Stradivari. Purchased byGinette Neveu in 1935 to enter the Wieniawski Competition. Was lost in a 1949 aircraft crash in the Azores along with Neveu.[190] |
| Royal Spanish | 1730 | Anne Akiko Meyers[191] | Once owned by the King of Spain.[192] |
| Tritton | 1730 | Kolja Blacher[193] | |
| Lady Jeanne | 1731 | Donald Kahn Foundation | On loan to Benjamin Schmid. |
| Kreutzer | 1731 | Rodolphe Kreutzer,Huguette M. Clark | One of four Stradivari violins with the sobriquetKreutzer (1701, 1720, 1727). Failed to sell at Christie's in New York on 18 June 2014.[194] |
| Garcin | 1731 | ||
| Heifetz-Piel | 1731 | Rudolph Piel Jascha Heifetz | |
| ? | 1731 | Pierre Gerber Hansheinz Schneeberger | Hansheinz Schneeberger, owner since 1959. |
| Baillot | 1732 | Pierre Baillot,Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio | Lent toGiuliano Carmignola for the DG recording ofVivaldi: Concertos for Two Violins.[195] |
| Duke of Alcantara | 1732 | An obscure Spanish nobleman UCLA | Genevieve Vedder donated the instrument to UCLA's 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.[196][197][198] |
| Red Diamond | 1732 | Louis Von Spencer IV | |
| Tom Taylor | 1732 | Previously owned byJoshua Bell. | |
| 1732 | Currently for sale atPeter Prier & Sons Violins inSalt Lake City, Utah.[199] | ||
| Arkwright Lady Rebecca Sylvan | 1732 | Donated to the foundation by Sylvan in 2015.[200][201] | |
| ex-Dollfus | 1732 | Played byHelena Rathbone on loan from anonymous Australian benefactors | |
| Des Rosiers | 1733 | Angèle Dubeau | Previously owned byArthur Leblanc |
| Huberman; Kreisler | 1733 | Bronisław Huberman Fritz Kreisler | |
| Khevenhüller | 1733 | Johann, 2nd Prince of Khevenhüller-Metsch,Yehudi Menuhin | |
| Rode | 1733 | Currently used byVadim Repin[202] | |
| Ames | 1734 | Roman Totenberg | Stolen in May 1980, found June 2015,[203] returned to Totenberg family on 6 August 2015.[204][205][206] As of October 2018, it has been sold to an unknown author.[207] |
| Scotland University | 1734 | Sau-Wing Lam Collection | Currently used bySergei Krylov by courtesy of theFondazione Antonio Stradivari in Cremona. |
| Baron Feilitzsch;Heermann | 1734 |
| |
| Habeneck | 1734 | Royal Academy of Music | |
| Herkules; Ysaÿe; ex-Szeryng; alsoKinor David | 1734 |
| Stolen from Ysaÿe during a concert in St. Petersburg in 1908; he had left it in the dressing room unattended. It reappeared at a shop in Paris in 1925. In 1972 Szeryng donated the instrument asKinor David (David's fiddle) to the City of Jerusalem. According to his wish, the violin is to be played by the concertmaster of theIsrael Philharmonic Orchestra.[208] |
| Willemotte | 1734 | Maria Lidka;acquired byLeonidas Kavakos in 2017.[209] | |
| Lord Amherst of Hackney | 1734 | Fritz Kreisler | |
| Lamoureux; ex-Zimbalist | 1735 | Missing: stolen.[210] | |
| Samazeuilh | 1735 | Nippon Music Foundation[22][211] | On loan toRay Chen. |
| Muntz | 1736 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | On loan toYuki Manuela Janke, concertmaster of theStaatskapelle Dresden. |
| ex-Roussy | 1736 | Chisako Takashima.[212] | |
| Yale Stradivari | 1736 | Yale University,Collection of Musical Instruments.[213] | |
| Spiritus Sorsana | 1736 | David Montagu | |
| Yusupov | 1736 | House of Yusupov, Russian State Collection, Glinka Museum, Moscow.[214] | Previously loaned toDavid Oistrakh (1930s–1941)[132] |
| Comte d'Amaille | 1737 | ||
| Lord Norton | 1737 |
There are twelve known extant Stradivari violas.
| Sobriquet | Year | Provenance | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahler | 1672 | Habisreutinger Foundation | The first of the Stradivarius violas; currently on loan to French violistAntoine Tamestit. |
| Tuscan-Medici Tenor | 1690 | Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany Conservatorio Luigi CherubiniGalleria dell'Accademia Florence, Italy | On exhibition[215] Part of theMedici Quartet[216] |
| Tuscan-Medici | 1690 | Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany Cameron Baird Library of Congress[217] | Commissioned byFerdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Part of theMedici Quartet[216] |
| Axelrod | 1695 | Donated to theSmithsonian Institution in 1997 byHerbert R. Axelrod. Now part of theAxelrod quartet. | |
| Archinto | 1696 | Royal Academy of Music.[218] | For elegance and grandeur, and in view of its remarkable state of preservation, the "Archinto" of 1696 is arguably the best example known.[219][220] |
| Spanish Court | 1696 | Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain.[31] | Collectively known asel Cuarteto Real (The Royal Quartet) when included with the violin duolos Decorados (Spanish I and II) and theSpanish Court cello of 1694. |
| MacDonald | 1719 | Purchased as part of a quartet of Stradivari for $200,000 by bankerFelix M. Warburg in the 1920s. The quartet was frequently loaned to the Musical Art Quartet for performances, where it was played byLouis Kaufman.[143] Was to be sold at auction through London musical instruments auction house Ingles & Hayday[221] in conjunction withSotheby's in Spring 2014 via silent auction. Winning bid was to be announced on 25 June 2014, but the instrument failed to attract a buyer matching the minimum bid of $45 million.[222][223] | |
| Lux; Castelbarco | 1714 | Fridart Foundation | Converted fromviol to viola byJean Baptiste Vuillaume.[224] |
| The Russian | 1715 | Russian State Collection | |
| Cassavetti | 1727 | United States Library of Congress | Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall.[225] |
| Paganini-Mendelssohn | 1731 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | This viola, and thePaganini-Desaint violin of 1680, thePaganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727 and thePaganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, comprise thePaganini Quartet. On loan to Christoph Vandory from Goldmund Quartet. Formerly part of the von Mendelssohn family quartet of Stradivari's in Berlin. |
| Gibson | 1734 | Habisreutinger Foundation | Currently on loan to violist Ursula Sarnthein of the Swiss string trio Trio Oreade. |
Antonio Stradivari built between 70 and 80 cellos in his lifetime, of which 63 are extant.
| Sobriquet | Year | Provenance | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| ex Vatican Stradivarius | 1620*/1703 | Emmanuel Gradoux-Matt, New York Bought byPhilip Glass forWendy Sutter [nl] Academia de Arte de Florencia (Mexico), on loan toNadège Rochat | Originally made byNicolo Amati as aviola da gamba c. 1620, reworked into a cello by Amati's student,Antonio Stradivari.[226] |
| ex-Du Pré; ex-Harrell | 1673 |
| |
| General Kyd; ex-Leo Stern | 1684 | Leo Stern Los Angeles Philharmonic Robert deMaine | Stolen in 2004 and later recovered.[228][229][230] |
| Marylebone | 1688 | Donated to theSmithsonian Institution in 1997 byHerbert R. Axelrod; part of theAxelrod quartet. | |
| Medici | 1690 | Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany Conservatorio Luigi CherubiniGalleria dell'Accademia Florence, Italy | Displayed to the public in the Museo degli Strumenti Musicali as part of the collection of theConservatorio Luigi Cherubini, accessed through theGalleria dell'Accademia; part of theMedici Quintet.[216] The Medici Cello is one of the only three surviving Stradivari cellos of large dimensions that have not been reduced in size[231] |
| Barjansky | 1690 | Alexandre Barjansky Julian Lloyd Webber[232] | |
| ex-Gendron; ex-Lord Speyer | 1693 | Edgar Speyer;Kunststiftung NRW | On loan toMaria Kliegel; previously loaned toMaurice Gendron (1958–1990). |
| Spanish Court orDecorado | 1694 | Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain[31] | Collectively known asQuinteto Real orQuinteto 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 theSpanish Court viola of 1696. Is the original quartet. SeeJuan Ruiz Casaux. |
| Bajo Palatino | 1700 | Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain[31][32] | collectively known asQuinteto Palatino orQuinteto Palatino (The Royal Quintet or Palace Quintet) when included with the violin duo,los Decorados (Spanish I and II),Spanish Court cello of 1694 and theSpanish Court viola of 1696. |
| Bonjour | 1696 | Abel Bonjour Robert Cohen | On loan toBryan Cheng [fr].[233] |
| Lord Aylesford | 1696 | Nippon Music Foundation[22] | On loan toPablo Ferrández; previously loaned toDanjulo Ishizaka andJanos Starker (1950–1965). |
| Castelbarco | 1699 | United States Library of Congress | Presented byGertrude Clarke Whittall.[234] |
| Cholmondeley Cello | 1698 | Anonymous collector | Purchased in 1988 for a record£682,000 (US$1.2 million)[235][236] |
| Stauffer; ex-Cristiani | 1700 | Jean Louis Duport Elise Barbier Cristiani | On display at theMuseo Civico Ala Ponzone.[15] |
| Servais | 1701 | National Museum of American History | On display at theNational Museum of American History. |
| Paganini-Countess of Stanlein | 1707 | Bernard Greenhouse[237] | Sold in January 2012 for ca. $6 million to Montreal arts patron;[238] (later identified asJacqueline Desmarais) on loan toStéphane Tétreault.[239] |
| Boni-Hegar | 1707 | owned byChristen Sveaas | On loan toAndreas Brantelid[240] |
| Boccherini; Romberg | 1709 | Formerly played byPablo Casals. | |
| Markevitch; Delphino | 1709 | Owned by the Fridart Foundation. | |
| Gore Booth; Baron Rothschild | 1710 | Rocco Filippini Gustav Bloch-Bauer | Stolen by the Nazis from Gustav Bloch-Bauer in 1938, and remained with the German authorities until 1956.[241] The cello features in the movieWoman in Gold, being played by Bloch-Bauer, who had been loaned the instrument for life by theRothschild family.[242] |
| Duport | 1711 | Mstislav Rostropovich (1974–2007) | |
| Mara | 1711 | Heinrich Schiff Amedeo Baldovino | Lost in July 1963 when ferrySS Ciudad de Asuncion betweenMontevideo andBuenos Aires caught fire and sank; later recovered in pieces in its case and rebuilt byW.E. Hill & Sons.[243] |
| Davidov | 1712 | CountMatvei Wielhorski (1794–1866) Karl Davidov Jacqueline du Pré | On loan toYo-Yo Ma. |
| Batta-Piatigorsky | 1714 |
| Currently displayed at theMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. |
| de Vaux | 1717 | On loan toAdam Klocek [pl]. | |
| Amaryllis Fleming | 1717 | ex-Blair-Oliphant, ex-Hegar, ex-Kühn, ex-Küchler | Formerly owned byAmaryllis Fleming, half sister to writers Ian and Peter Fleming. Neck, head and table are not original, after extensive repairs in the 18th century by the Spanish luthierJosé Contreras;[245][246] auctioned in 2008.[247] |
| Becker | 1719 |
| |
| Piatti | 1720 | Carlos Prieto | Formerly part of the von Mendelssohn family quartet of Stradivari's in Berlin. |
| Vaslin, La Belle Blonde | 1723 | LVMH | Owned by Olive-Charlier Vaslin from 1827 to 1869.[249] Displayed at the South Kensington Special Exhibition of 1872.[249]Purchased as part of a quartet of Stradivari for $200,000 by bankerFelix M. Warburg in the 1920s. The quartet was frequently loaned to the Musical Art Quartet for performances, where it was played by Marie Roemaet-Rosanov.[143] In 1968, Warburg's son Gerald Felix Warburg—a cellist himself—sold the instrument toHenriette Polak-Schwarz [de].[48] Other owners includedNarcisse Girard,Jules Gallay, andMartin Lovett.[249] On loan to Henri Demarquette. |
| Haussman | 1724 | Hausman family Max AdlerChuck Meyer | 1839–1861: Georg (George) Hausmann. 1861–1909:Robert Hausmann (cellist, Joachim Quartet). 1909–1927: Mrs. Hausmann (widow). 1927–1944: Max Adler & family (Chicago). From 1944:Edmund Kurtz. |
| Baudiot | 1725 | Gregor Piatigorsky | Bequeathed to Evan Drachman by his grandfather Gregor Piatigorsky. |
| Chevillard | 1725 | Museu da Música, Lisbon | |
| Marquis de Corberon; ex-Loeb | 1726 | Royal Academy of Music | Formerly owned byHugo Becker and Audrey Melville, who bequeathed it to the RAM in 1960. Melville's friend,Zara Nelsova, held it until her death in 2002, as a condition of Melville's bequest. Currently on loan toSteven Isserlis.[250][251][252] |
| Comte de Saveuse | 1726 | Comte de Saveuse d'Abbeville, Edward Latter, Archibald Hartnell, Michael Edmonds, subsequently lent toMichael Evans. | |
| De Munck; ex-Feuermann | 1730 |
| On loan toCamille Thomas |
| Pawle | 1730 | Once loaned toYo-Yo Ma in 1999 whenPetunia's neck was damaged before a concert inTaiwan.[253] | |
| Braga | 1731 | Gaetano Braga | On loan toMyung-wha Chung.[254] |
| Stuart | 1732 | Frederick the Great, | According toVladimir Putin, his friendSergei Roldugin bought the instrument for $12M.[255][256] |
| Paganini-Ladenburg | 1736 |
| This cello, and thePaganini-Desaint violin of 1686, thePaganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727 and thePaganini-Mendelssohn viola of 1731, comprise thePaganini Quartet. On loan to Raphael Paratore fromGoldmund Quartet [de]. |
Five[257] complete guitars by Stradivari exist, and a few fragments of others – including the neck of a sixth guitar, owned by theConservatoire de Musique in Paris.[258] These guitars have ten (doubled, five-course) strings, which was typical of the era.
| Sobriquet | Year | Provenance | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hill | 1688 | Ashmolean Museum atOxford University[258] | ex-Kabayao-Dolfus Stradivarius 1724 |
| Sabionari | 1679 | (Owned by a private collector) | Currently the only playable Stradivari guitar. Contemporary to the early painted violins "Sunrise" and "Hellier". Like many other baroque guitars, it had been redesigned to follow the instrumental practice at the beginning of the 19th century. Recently it was restored by Lorenzo Frignani to the original baroque configuration with five-course strings.[257] |
| Rawlins | 1700 | National Music Museum, South Dakota.[259] | Previously owned by violinistLouis Krasner. |
| Vuillaume | 1711 | Cite de la Musique, Paris[260] | Owned byJean-Baptiste Vuillaume; acquired 1880 |
The only surviving Stradivarius harp is thearpetta (little harp), owned bySan Pietro a Maiella Music Conservatory in Naples, Italy.[261][262]
There are two known extant Stradivarimandolins. TheCutler-Challen Choral Mandolino of 1680 is in the collection of theNational Music Museum at theUniversity of South Dakota inVermillion, South Dakota.[263] The other, dated c. 1706, is owned by private collector Charles Beare of London.[264] Known as Mandolino Coristo, it has eight strings.[33]
A Stradivariusbow, The King Charles IV Violin Bow attributed to the Stradivari Workshop, is currently in the collection of theNational Music Museum Object number: 04882, at theUniversity of South Dakota inVermillion, South Dakota. The Rawlins Gallery violin bow, NMM 4882, is attributed to the workshop ofAntonio Stradivari, Cremona, c. 1700. This is one of two bows attributed to the workshop of Antonio Stradivari. The other was part of the Amaryllis Fleming Collection, the Paul Rosenbaum Collection, and the Maurice and Marta Clare Collection. It is currently in a private collection in Munich.[265]
Violin identified at 3:08