Nippon Music Foundation

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The Nippon Music Foundation (NMF, English for Nippon ongaku zaidan , Japanese 日本 音 楽 財 団 ) is a foundation ( kōeki zaidan-hōjin ) in the district of Minato (Tokyo) under the supervision of the Bunka-chō . It was founded in 1974. The organization owns the largest collection of instruments built by Antonio Stradivari .

Instruments

The Nippon Music Foundation currently owns 19 string instruments by Antonio Stradivari (of which 15 are violins) and two violins by Guarneri del Gesù (as of December 2018). These instruments are listed below. Photos and descriptions of the instruments as well as information on how they were awarded to artists can be found on the foundation's website.

In June 2011, the foundation sold the Stradivarius Lady Blunt , which it had owned since 2008, in order to use the proceeds to support an aid fund for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami disaster in March 2011 . The online auction price of £ 9.8 million was a new record price for a Stradivarius.

Antonio Stradivarius

Violins

  • 1680 Paganini-Desaint (part of the Paganini Quartet )
  • 1700 Dragonetti
  • 1702 Lord Newlands
  • 1708 Huggins
  • 1709 Engleman
  • 1710 Camposelice
  • 1714 Dolphin
  • 1715 Joachim-Aranyi
  • 1716 Booth
  • 1717 Sasserno
  • 1722 Jupiter
  • 1725 Wilhelmj
  • 1727 Paganini, Comte Cozio di Salabue (part of the Paganini Quartet)
  • 1735 Samazeuilh
  • 1736 Muntz

viola

  • 1731 Paganini-Mendelssohn (part of the Paganini Quartet)

Cellos

  • 1696 Aylesford
  • 1730 Feuermann
  • 1736 Paganini-Ladenburg (part of the Paganini Quartet)

Guarneri del Gesù

Violins

  • 1736 Muntz
  • 1740 Ysaÿe

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Location nippon-foundation.or.jp
  2. ↑ Nippon Music Foundation nippon-foundation.or.jp
  3. ↑ Instruments nmf.or.jp (English)
  4. ↑ Stradivarius violin sold for £ 9.8m at charity auction BBC News, June 21, 2011.

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