List of Stradivarius instruments
Violins
This list has 248 entries.

List of Stradivarius instruments

Section Title: Violins
Table Section Text: This list has 248 entries.

Sobriquet	Year	Provenance	Notes

ex-Back	1666	Fridart Foundation

Dubois	1667	Canimex Inc.	On loan to Alexandre Da Costa

Aranyi	1667	Francis Aranyi (collector)	Sold at Sotheby's London, 12 November 1986

ex-Captain Saville	1667	Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume Captain Saville (1901–1907)	Currently played by André Rieu

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”.

Clisbee	1669	Mrs. Clisbee	On exhibition at Museo del Violino, town of Cremona, Italy

Oistrakh	1671	Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Glinka Museum, Moscow	Previously owned by David Oistrakh, who inherited it in 1969 under the will of Queen Elizabeth. He never performed with this instrument, constructed in the Nicola Amati style, because of the short scale, uncomfortable for his hand.

Sellière	1672	Charles IV of Spain

Spanish	1678	Finnish Cultural Foundation	On loan to Elina Vähälä

Hellier	1679	Sir Samuel Hellier	Smithsonian Institution

Paganini-Desaint	1680	Nippon Music Foundation	This violin, and the Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727, the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola 1731 and the Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, comprise the Paganini Quartet; the foundation owns more than a dozen Stradivari instruments.

1680	The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei

1681	Reynier and Count de Lachenais	Presumably presented by Napoleon III to the French violinist Léon Reynier, who sold it to Count de Lachenais of Marseilles in 1881.

Fleming	1681

Bucher	1683

Derpinina	1683

Cipriani Potter	1683	Cipriani Potter

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.

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.

ex-Nachez	1686	Dr. Winfred and Mr. John Constable

Rosenheim	1686	William Rosenheim

Goddard	1686	Miss Goddard Antonio Fortunato

Ex Bello, Marie Law	1687	c. 1875: from George Parsons to Hart & Son (London) c.	On loan to Maristella Patuzzi.The Stradivari was used to record the Decca album Intimamente Tango (2015, No. 481 1489) and a new Violin concerto by Manuel De Sica published by Brilliant Classics (2014, No.

Ole Bull	1687	Ole Bull (1844) Dr. Herbert Axelrod (1985–1997)	Donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod; now part of the Axelrod quartet.

Mercur-Avery	1687	On loan to Jonathan Carney, concertmaster of the Baltimore 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

Arditi	1689	Dextra musica AS, Norway	On loan to Elise Båtnes, concertmaster of the Oslo Philharmonic

Spanish I	1689	Patrimonio Nacional, 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, 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).

Ex-Leopold Auer	1690	On loan to Vadim Gluzman brokered by the Stradivari Society

Bingham	1690

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 to Navarrese musician Pablo de Sarasate

Ex-Ries	1691	Reinhold Würth Music Foundation	On loan to József Lendvay Jr. since 2008.

Bennett	1692	Winterthur-Versicherungen	On loan to Hanna Weinmeister

Falmouth	1692	Gert-Jan Kramer	On loan to Alex Kerr, Concertmaster, Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Longuet	1692	Musée de la Musique, Paris	Donated in 1890. On display at the museum.

Gould	1693	George Gould	Bequeathed by Gould to the Metropolitan Museum in 1955

Harrison	1693	Richard Harrison Henry Hottinger Kyung-wha Chung	In the collection of the National Music Museum

Baillot-Pommerau	1694b	Formerly owned by Arthur Catterall, then by Alfredo Campoli

ex-Halíř or Strad Halir 1694	1694	Karel Halíř Philip Greenberg, Artistic director and conductor of the Kiev Philharmonic, Ukraine Dr. Harold Dinkens Robert Schumitzky, Associate Concertmaster at Opera Pacific Orchestra and first violin at Orchestra Nova San Diego and Pacific Symphony	Karel Halíř premiered with this instrument the new version of Sibelius's Violin Concerto on 19 October 1905, with Richard Strauss conducting the Berlin Court Orchestra.

Francesca	1694	Metropolitan Museum of Art	Bequest of Annie Bolton Matthews Bryant, 1933

Rutson	1694	Royal Academy of Music	Played by Clio Gould

Fetzer	1695

Lincoln	1695	Bequeathed to the people of Lincoln in 1970 by Mrs. Dudley Pelham on condition that it be loaned to the Hallé Orchestra for the use of their leader.

1696	Owned by Korean-born classical musician, Min-Jin Kym. It was stolen at Euston Station in London in 2010, but recovered in 2013 and was auctioned for £1.4222M to a British Music Festival led by the English violinist Andrew Bernardi

Paganini	1697	Edvin Marton	Dima Bilan, together with Evgeni Plushenko and Edvin Marton playing his Stradivarius, won the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Molitor	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) R.	Thought to previously belong to Napoleon Bonaparte. Sold by Tarisio Auctions for $3,600,000, a new world record until the Lady Blunt was sold on 20 June 2011.

Cecilia C A (Capitulum Agriense)	1697	Formerly owned by Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum since 2011, now played by Katalin Kokas	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 with Baron Johann Knoop

Joachim	1698	Fridart Foundation	Once owned by Hugo Kortschak and later by Joan Field; currently owned by Dr. David Josefowitz (Fridart Foundation, Geneva)

Duc de Camposelice	1699	Cho-Liang Lin

Lady Tennant; Lafont	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

Countess Polignac	1699	On loan to Gil Shaham.

Castelbarco	1699	United States Library of Congress	Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall

Kustendyke	1699	Royal Academy of Music

Crespi	1699	Fridart Foundation

ex-Berglund	1699	Suomen Kulttuurirahasto (Finnish Cultural Foundation)	Previously owned by conductor Paavo Berglund. Purchased from Berglund's estate by the Finnish Cultural Foundation in June 2012.

The Penny	1700	Barbara Penny

Dragonetti	1700	Nippon Music Foundation	Formerly owned by Alfredo Campoli, now played by Veronika Eberle

Jupiter	1700	Giovanni Battista Viotti	owned and played since 1964 by Arnold Belnick, Los Angeles, California

Taft; ex-Emil Heermann	1700	Canada Council for the Arts	On loan to Nikki Chooi who was from 2009–2012 the recipient of the Council's 1729 Guarneri, now on loan to Chooi's younger brother Timothy Chooi

Ward	1700	U. S. Library of Congress	Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall

Dushkin	1701	On loan to Dennis Kim, concertmaster, Pacific Symphony

Markees	1701	Music Chamber

Irish	1702	Pohjola Bank Art Foundation, Finland	On loan to Rebecca Roozeman

Conte de Fontana; ex-Oistrakh	1702	Riccardo Brengola Pro Canale Foundation	On loan to Mariana Sîrbu. Previously owned by David Oistrakh (1959–1966).

Lukens; Elder Voicu	1702	A. W. Lukens Ion Voicu Romania Culture Ministry	On loan to Alexandru Tomescu through 2012

King Maximilian Joseph	1702	Maximilian Joseph III of Bavaria 1745/77 King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria 1799/1825 King Ludwig II of Bavaria 1864 Franz Rampftler (Munich) 1886 von Knörzinger and his family 1920/23 Hug & Co.	Lifetime loan to Berent Korfker.

Lyall	1702

Antonio Stradivari	1703	Bundesrepublik Deutschland	Exhibited at Musikinstrumentenmuseum, Berlin

La Rouse Boughton	1703	Oesterreichische Nationalbank	On loan to Boris Kuschnir of the Kopelman Quartet

Lord Newlands	1702	Nippon Music Foundation	On loan to Ray Chen

Allegretti	1703

Alsager	1703

Lady Harmsworth	1703	Paul Bartel	On loan to Kristóf Baráti brokered by the Stradivari Society

Emiliani	1703	Anne-Sophie Mutter

ex-Foulis	1703	On loan to Karen Gomyo

Liebig	1704	Wolfgang Schneiderhan Rony Rogoff	Owned since 1991 by Rony Rogoff

Betts	1704	United States Library of Congress	Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall

Gleni	1704

Sleeping Beauty	1704	Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg – Förderbank (L-Bank)	On loan to Isabelle Faust. One of the few Stradivari violins to have retained original neck.

Prince Obolensky	1704	On loan to Esther Yoo

Baron von der Leyen	1705	Private owner	Auctioned by Tarisio on 26 April 2012 for $2.6 million.

ex-Marsick; ex-Oistrakh	1705	Previously owned by David Oistrakh (1966–1974), acquired in trade for the 1702 Conte di Fontana

ex-Tadolini	1706	The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei

ex-Brüstlein	1707	Oesterreichische Nationalbank

La Cathédrale	1707	Nigel Kennedy

ex-Prihoda	1707	Luz Leskowitz	Previously owned by Czech violinist Váša Příhoda, teacher of Luz Leskowitz

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

1707	Russian State Collection – Glinka Museum, Moscow

Le Davidoff	1708	Musée de la Musique, Paris	Bequeathed to the museum in 1887

Le 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	On loan to the most recent winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition for violin

Regent	1708	Owned by the Fridart Foundation

Ruby	1708	On loan to Chen Xi brokered by the Stradivari Society

Strauss	1708	On loan to Clara-Jumi Kang brokered by the Stradivari Society

Greffuhle	1709	Donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod. Now part of the Axelrod quartet.

Berlin Hochschule	1709

ex-Hämmerle; ex-Adler	1709	Oesterreichische Nationalbank	on loan to Rainer Honeck

Ernst	1709	Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst About 1850–1865 Wilma Neruda 1872	On loan to Dénes Zsigmondy through 2003

Engleman	1709	Nippon Music Foundation

King Maximilian; Unico	1709	Axel Springer Foundation	On loan to Michel Schwalbé, concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic (1966–1986); reported stolen in 1999

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 of inheritance tax, with additional funding from: the National 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's The Culture Show and anonymous donors

Marie Hall	1709	Giovanni Battista Viotti Chimei Museum	Named after violinist Marie Hall

ex-Kempner	1709	On loan to Soovin Kim

La Pucelle	1709	Huguette Clark David Fulton	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

Camposelice	1710	Nippon Music Foundation	On loan to Svetlin Roussev

Lord Dunn-Raven	1710	Anne-Sophie Mutter

ex-Roederer	1710	On loan to David Grimal (Owned by Ayla Erduran for 37 years).

ex-Vieuxtemps	1710	Purchased 1900 by Leopold Geissmar, a lawyer and amateur musician in Mannheim His daughter Berta had it in 1944.	Not to be confused with the Vieuxtemps-Hauser violin on loan to Samuel Magad, concertmaster 1972–2007, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Davis	1710	Mr. and Mrs. William S. Davis	On loan to Michael Shih, concertmaster, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

1710	Russian State Collection- Glinka Museum, Moscow

the Antonius	1711	Metropolitan Museum of Art	Bequest of Annie Bolton Matthews Bryant, 1933

the Lady Inchiquin	1711	previously owned by Fritz Kreisler	Played by Frank Peter Zimmermann, a German banking company. WestLB AG bought it for his use.

Earl of Plymouth; Kreisler	1711	Los Angeles Philharmonic	Found in storeroom on the estate of the Earl of Plymouth along with The Messiah and Alard violins in 1925; purchased by Fritz Kreisler in 1928 and subsequently sold by him in 1946

Liegnitz	1711	Previously owned by Szymon 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.

Le Brun	1712	Niccolò Paganini From c. 1806 Charles-Francois Lebrun Boutillier Family Until 1893 Chardon et Fils From 1893 Vincenzo Sighicelli From 1922 Otto Senn From 2008 Anonymous concert violinist	Sold at Sotheby's auction on 13 November 2001. From November 2015 to January 2016 was on loan to Kiril Laskarov, concertmaster of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.

Karpilowsky	1712	Harry Solloway	Missing: stolen in 1953 from Solloway's residence in Los Angeles

Schreiber	1713

Antonio Stradivari	1713

Boissier-Sarasate	1713	Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid	Sarasate legancy 1909

Daniel	1713	On loan to Juan Pablo Reynoso

Sancy	1713	Ivry Gitlis

Gibson; ex-Huberman	1713	Bronisław Huberman Joshua Bell	Stolen twice from Huberman

Lady Ley	1713	Stradivarius family	Owned by Jue Yao, Chinese violinist

Wirt	1713	Chimei Museum

Dolphin; Delfino	1714	Jascha Heifetz Nippon Music Foundation	On loan to Akiko Suwanai. 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	Amédée Soil Yehudi Menuhin Itzhak Perlman

ex-Berou; ex-Thibaud	1714	Jacques Thibaud	Previously owned by David Oistrakh (his first Stradivarius, bought in the US in 1956).

Le Maurien	1714	Missing: stolen 2002

Leonora Jackson	1714	William Sloan Collection

Massart	1714	Lambert Massart György Pauk

Sinsheimer; General Kyd; Perlman	1714	Itzhak Perlman David L. Fulton

Smith-Quersin	1714	Oesterreichische Nationalbank	On loan to Rainer Honeck, the Vienna Philharmonic leader.

Alard-Baron Knoop	1715	Juan Luis Prieto	Named for French violinist Jean-Delphin Alard. Sold at auction in 1981 to a collector in Singapore for $1.2 million.

Baron Knoop; ex-Bevan	1715	David L. Fulton

ex-Bazzini	1715	On loan to Matteo Fedeli

Cremonese; ex-Harold; Joseph Joachim	1715	Joseph Joachim Municipality of Cremona	On exhibition at Museo del Violino, town of Cremona, Italy

Emperor	1715	George Haddock (1876–1907) Edgar Haddock (1907–1910) Jan Kubelík	Sold to Jan Kubelík in 1910 for £10,000.

Duke of Cambridge; ex-Pierre Rode	1715	Pierre Rode Leopold Auer Oscar Shumsky NPO "Yellow Angel"	Formerly loaned to Ryu Goto

Joachim	1715	Nippon Music Foundation	On loan to Ray Chen

Lipiński	1715	Giuseppe Tartini	On loan to Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster, Frank Almond. Stolen in an armed robbery on 27 January 2014 and subsequently recovered.

Marsick	1715	James Ehnes

Titian	1715	Cho-Liang Lin

Ex Adolf Busch	1716	Owned by David Garrett since 2010

Le Provigny	1716	Musée de la Musique, Paris	Bequeathed to the Museum in 1909

Cessole	1716

Berthier	1716	Baron Vecsey de Vecse Franco Gulli

Booth	1716	Nippon Music Foundation	On loan to Arabella Steinbacher; formerly loaned to Shunsuke Sato; formerly loaned to Julia Fischer

Colossus	1716	Luigi Alberto Bianchi	missing: stolen 1998

Duranti	1716	Mariko Senju

Milstein ex Goldman	1716	Nathan Milstein	Sold by Charles Beare and the Milstein Family to Jerry Kohl

Monasterio	1716	Ruggiero Ricci	Named after violinist and composer Jesús de Monasterio. Cyrus Forough

Provigny	1716

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

ex-Windsor-Weinstein; Fite	1716	Canada Council for the Arts	On loan to Timothy Chooi

Baron Wittgenstein	1716	The Bulgarian state	Formerly owned by John Corigliano Sr. (former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic) on loan to Mincho Minchev since 1979

Gariel	1717	Jaime Laredo	Nicola Benedetti

ex-Wieniawski	1717

ex-Baumgartner	1717	Lucerne Festival Strings	On loan to Daniel Dodds

Toenniges	1717	Strad with the Vuillaume Back The Lawrence Welk Show Dick Kesner and his Magic Stradivarius	Dick Kesner, Paul Toenniges (Studio City, California)

Kochanski	1717	Pierre Amoyal Paweł Kochański	Stolen in 1987; recovered in 1991

Sasserno	1717	Nippon Music Foundation	On loan to Viviane Hagner until 2012 On loan to Alina Pogostkina since 2013

Maurin	1718	Royal Academy of Music, London, Rutson Bequest

Viotti; ex-Rosé	1718	Giovanni Battista Viotti Oesterreichische Nationalbank	On loan to Volkhard Steude

Chanot-Chardon	1718	Timothy Baker Joshua Bell	Shaped like a guitar; on loan to Simone 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 while concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1969–1993

San Lorenzo	1718	Georg Talbot

ex-Count Vieri	1718	The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei

Lauterbach	1719	Johann Christoph Lauterbach J.B. Vuillaume Charles Philippe Lafont

Zahn	1719	LVMH

Wieniawski, Bower	1719	Benz Mercedes Zurich	Loan to Klaidi Sahatci, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich Concertmast

Malakh	1719	Dr. L. Looby	Malakh House. Last played 1946.

Woolhouse	1720	played by Rudolf Koelman

ex-Bavarian	1720	Metropolitan Museum of Art

Madrileño	1720	Rimma Sushanskaya teacher of Harvard wife of Benjamin Franklin Rembert Wurlitzer Duques de Osuna Ruggiero Ricci

von Beckerath	1720	Michael Antonello

ex-Thibaud	1720	Jacques Thibaud	Destroyed in the crash of Air France Flight 178 on 1 September 1953

Sinsheimer; Iselin	1721	Stolen in Hanover, Germany in 2008; recovered in 2009.

Lady Blunt	1721	Nippon Music Foundation	Named for Lady Anne Blunt, daughter of Ada Lovelace and granddaughter of Lord 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.

Jean-Marie Leclair	1721	Jean-Marie Leclair	On loan to Guido Rimonda

Red Mendelssohn	1720	Mendelssohn family Elizabeth Pitcairn Joseph Joachim	Inspiration for the 1998 film, The Red Violin Formerly part of the von Mendelssohn family quartet of Stradivari's in Berlin

Birsou'	1721	Léon Reynier Joan Field Vy Thanh Dat Vietnam	Formerly owned by Metropolitan Museum of Art. Joan Field – an American violinist (1915–1988) also known as one of its owners, played the Birsou' from 1921 to 1929.

The Macmillan	1721	Tossy Spivakovsky	On Loan to Ray Chen through Young Concert Artists (2008–2012); on loan to Ning Feng through Premiere Performances of Hong Kong (2012–Present)

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.

Jupiter; ex-Goding	1722	Nippon Music Foundation	On loan to Ryu Goto; formerly Midori Goto, Daishin Kashimoto, Manrico Padovani

Laub-Petschnikoff	1722

Elman	1722	Chimei Museum

Cádiz	1722	Joseph Fuchs	On loan to Jennifer Frautschi; named after the city of Cádiz, Spain.

Rode	1722

Kiesewetter; ex-Kiesewetter	1723	Clement and Karen Arrison	On loan to Philippe Quint 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

Le Sarasate	1724	Koltius Voloninis Niccolò Paganini (1817–1840) Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume Pablo de Sarasate Musée de la Musique, Paris since 1909	Believed to have been owned by Kotzius Voloninis, 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 the Conservatoire de Musique in memory of his student days.

Ex-Szigeti, Ludwig	1724	Bears the inscription: "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1724". Since 1989 in the possession of the L-Bank Baden Württemberg and is awarded to musicians to use.

Abergavenny	1724	Leonidas Kavakos plays it since 2010

Brancaccio	1725	Destroyed in an allied air raid on Berlin.	Owned by Carl Flesch until 1928; sold to Franz von Mendelssohn, banker and amateur violinist.

Chaconne	1725	Oesterreichische Nationalbank	On loan to Rainer Küchel

Leonardo da Vinci	1725	Da Vinci family

Lubbock	1725	Jean-Jacques Grasset (17??–1839) Charles Francois Gand (Paris) (1839–1844) Meugy (1844–1892) W.E. Hill & Sons (1892–1893) Neville Lubbock & Miss Lubbock (1893–1917) Destreicher (1917–1925) W.E.	Owned by French artist/musician Jean-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 as Lubbock.

Wilhelmj	1725	Nippon Music Foundation	On loan to Baiba Skride; one of several Stradivari violins with the sobriquet "Wilhelmj"

Hubay	1726	Niccolò Paganini (until 1840) Baron Achille Paganini (1840) Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (until 1870) François van Hal (from 1870) Jenő Hubay (1889–1900) Eugen de Fischer Farkasházy (1900–1928) Caressa (1928–) Albert Caressa (1954–)	Played by Paganini, Hubay, Nai-Yuan Hu, Robert Gerle. Currently played by Edvin Marton.

Greville; Kreisler; Adams	1726	Fritz Kreisler

Baron Deurbroucq	1727	Baron Deurbroucq (The Hague) (1870) Robert Crawford (Edinburgh) W.E. Hill & Sons (1902) Hans Wessely (1903–1926) David D.

Barrere	1727	Formerly on loan to Janine Jansen, now on loan to Rosanne Philippens

Benvenuti	1727	Owned by Maurice Hasson

Davidoff-Morini	1727	owned by violinist Erica Morini, purchased for her by her father in Paris in 1924 for $10,000	Missing: stolen in 1995

ex-General Dupont	1727	Arthur Grumiaux	On loan to Frank Peter Zimmermann

Holroyd	1727	Owned by Koh Gabriel Kameda

Kreutzer	1727	Maxim Vengerov	One of four Stradivari violins with the sobriquet Kreutzer (1701, 1720, 1731)

ex-Reynier or Le Reynier; Hart; ex-Francescatti	1727	LVMH since 1993 or 1994 Salvatore Accardo	Named after Léon Reynier who won at the Concervatoire de Paris in 1847. Has been lent to Maxim Vengerov.

Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue	1727	Nippon Music Foundation	This violin, and the Paganini-Desaint violin of 1680, the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola of 1731 and the Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, comprise the Paganini Quartet.

Halphen	1727	Angelika Prokopp Private Foundation	On loan to Eckhard Seifert

Vesuvius	1727	Antonio Brosa Remo Lauricella Town of Cremona	On display in Cavalese

1727	Suntory Foundation for Arts	On loan to Shion Minami

A. J. Fletcher; Red Cross Knight	1728	A. J. Fletcher Foundation	On loan to Nicholas Kitchen of the Borromeo String Quartet; the instrument was made by Omobono Stradivarius

1728	Australian Chamber Orchestra Instrument Fund	On loan to Satu Vänskä, Assistant Leader of the orchestra

Artot-Alard	1728	Endre Balogh	A copy of this instrument was produced in 1996 by Gregg Alf and Joseph Curtin, using modern materials and methods; Balogh performs on both the 1728 original and the replica.

Dragonetti-Milanollo	1728	Giovanni Battista Viotti Domenico Dragonetti Teresa Milanollo Christian Ferras Pierre Amoyal	On loan to Corey Cerovsek

Perkins	1728	Los Angeles Philharmonic	Named for Frederick Perkins; formerly owned by Luigi Boccherini

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 at Christie's, New York for US$2,728,000 (€2,040,000)

Innes	1729	On loan to Eugen Sârbu; previously loaned to Wieniawski

Libon	1729	Felipe Libon Josef Suk

Guarneri	1729	Canada Council for the Arts	On loan to Timothy Chooi, the younger brother of the 2009–2012 loan recipient Nikki Chooi, in 2012 named recipient of the Council's 1700 Taft Stradivari

Récamier	1729	Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry, Ltd.	On loan to Sayaka Shoji

Baldiani	1730	Antonio Strad Violin, San Antonio TX	Currently for sale at Antonio Strad Violin, San Antonio, TX

Ex-Neveu	1730	Marcel Vatelot	Produced by Omobono Stradivari. Purchased by Ginette Neveu in 1935 in order to enter the Wieniawski Competition.

Royal Spanish	1730	Anne Akiko Meyers	Once owned by the King of Spain

Lady Jeanne	1731	Donald Kahn Foundation	On loan to Benjamin Schmid

Kreutzer	1731	Huguette M. Clark	One of four Stradivari violins with the sobriquet Kreutzer (1701, 1720, 1727), Failed to sell at Christie's in New York June 18, 2014

Garcin	1731	Jules Garcin Israel Baker Sidney Harth

Heifetz-Piel	1731	Rudolph Piel Jascha Heifetz

?	1731	Pierre Gerber Hansheinz Schneeberger	Hansheinz Schneeberger, owner since 1959

Baillot	1732	Fondazione Casa di Risparmio	Lent to Giuliano Carmignola for the DG recording of Vivaldi: Concertos for Two Violins

Duke of Alcantara	1732	An obscure Spanish nobleman described as an aide-de-camp of King Don Carlos UCLA	Genevieve Vedder donated the instrument to UCLA's music department in the 1960s. In 1967, the instrument was on loan to David Margetts.

Red Diamond	1732	Louis Von Spencer IV

Tom Taylor	1732	Previously owned by Joshua Bell

1732	Currently for sale at Peter Prier & Sons Violins in Salt Lake City, Utah

Arkwright Lady Rebecca Sylvan	1732	Carlo Alfredo Piatti John Hungerford Arkwright Joseph Sylvan Rachel Barton Pine Foundation	Donated to the foundation by Sylvan in 2015

Des Rosiers	1733	Angèle Dubeau	Previously owned by Arthur Leblanc

Huberman; Kreisler	1733	Bronisław Huberman Fritz Kreisler

Khevenhüller	1733	Yehudi Menuhin

Rode	1733	Currently used by Erzhan Kulibaev by courtesy of the Maggini Foundation

Ames	1734	Roman Totenberg	Stolen in 1981, found June 2015, returned to Totenberg family August 6, 2015; explained by Nina Totenberg: Interview with Nina Totenberg As of October 2018, it has been sold to an unknown author

Scotland University	1734	Sau-Wing Lam Collection	Currently used by Sergei Krylov by courtesy of the Fondazione Antonio Stradivari in Cremona

Baron Feilitzsch; Heermann	1734	Baron Feilitzsch Hugo Heerman Gidon Kremer

Habeneck	1734	Royal Academy of Music

Herkules; Ysaÿe; ex-Szeryng; also Kinor David	1734	Eugène Ysaÿe Charles Münch Henryk Szeryng State of Israel	Stolen from Ysaÿe during a concert in St. Petersburg in 1908; he had left it in the dressing room unattended.

Willemotte	1734	Acquired by Leonidas Kavakos in 2017.

Lord Amherst of Hackney	1734	Fritz Kreisler

Lamoureux; ex-Zimbalist	1735	Missing: stolen

Muntz	1736	Nippon Music Foundation	On loan to Yuki Manuela Janke, concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Dresden

ex-Roussy	1736	Chisako Takashima

Yale Stradivari	1736	Yale University, Collection of Musical Instruments

Yusupov	1736	Russian State Collection,- Glinka Museum, Moscow	Previously loaned to David Oistrakh (1930s–1941)

Comte d'Amaille	1737

Lord Norton	1737

Il Mio Preferito; L'ultimo	1737

The Swan Song, Le Chant du Cygne	1737	Original label: "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis / Faciebat Anno 1737 / D'Anno 93". Owned and played by Ivry Gitlis.

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In 1720, Stradivarius violin was nicknamed the "Red Mendelssohn".

final_sentence: In 1720, Stradivarius violin was nicknamed the "Red Mendelssohn".