List of Stradivarius instruments
This is a list of Stradivarius string instruments made by members of the house of Antonio Stradivari.
Stradivarius instruments
Violins
This list has 282 entries.Golden period: 1700–1718
| Sobriquet | Year | Provenance | Notes |
| Berger | 1700 | Currently in possession of Bein & Fushi Violins. | |
| ex-Berglund | 1699 | Finnish Cultural Foundation | Previously owned by conductor Paavo Berglund. Purchased from Berglund's estate by the Finnish Cultural Foundation in June 2012. On loan to Antti Tikkanen. |
| The Penny | 1700 | Barbara Penny | - |
| Petri | 1700 | Henri Petri | |
| 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. |
| Russian, Margaret, Berson | 1700 | ||
| Taft; ex-Emil Heermann | 1700 | Canada Council for the Arts | On loan to Nikki Chooi who was from 2009 to 2012 the recipient of the Council's 1729 Guarneri, now on loan to Chooi's younger brother Timothy Chooi. |
| Taylor, Heberlein | 1700 | San Francisco Symphony | Owned by the San Francisco Symphony since 2002. |
| Ward | 1700 | United States Library of Congress | Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall. |
| Circle, Nachez | 1701 | ||
| Court Strad | 1701 | ||
| Deveault | 1701 | Guy and Maryse Deveault | On loan to Alexandre Da Costa |
| Dushkin, Sandler | 1701 | Samuel Dushkin, Albert Sandler | On loan to Dennis Kim, concertmaster, Pacific Symphony. |
| Ferraresi | 1701 | Herbert R. Axelrod, New Jersey Symphony | Sold at Ingles & Hayday in 2016. |
| Kreutzer, von Hautem | 1701 | Rodolphe Kreutzer, Uto Ughi | |
| Markees | 1701 | Music Chamber of Hong Kong | |
| Brodsky | 1702 | Named after Adolph Brodsky who premiered Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto on this violin on 4 December 1881. On loan to Kirill Troussov since 2006. Previously played by Adolf Brodsky, Alexander Schneider and Isidore Cohen. | |
| Irish | 1702 | Pohjola Bank Art Foundation, Finland | On loan to Rebecca Roozeman. |
| Campoli | 1702 | Alfredo Campoli | Sold by W. E. Hill & Sons in 1961. |
| Conte de Fontana; ex-Oistrakh | 1702 | Pro Canale Foundation | Loaned to Pavel Berman. Previously owned by David Oistrakh. After the 1736 Yusupov it was his second Strad, bought in Paris in 1959 and traded in 1966 for the 1705 Marsick. |
| De La Taille | 1702 | Rafael Druian | On loan to Mihail Ion |
| Lukens; Edler; Voicu | 1702 | A. W. Lukens Charles Edler Ion Voicu Romania Culture Ministry | On loan to Alexandru Tomescu until 2023. |
| Lord Borwick | 1702 | On loan to Ririko Takagi. | |
| King Maximilian Joseph | 1702 | Lifetime loan to Berent Korfker. | |
| Lyall | 1702 | Formerly owned by University of Western Ontario | Players of the violin include Stefan Milenkovich and Lara St. John. |
| Lord Newlands | 1702 | Nippon Music Foundation | On loan to Suyoen Kim. |
| Wondra Bey | 1702 | ||
| 1703 | George Schlieps, Herbert R. Axelrod, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra | ||
| Antonio Stradivari | 1703 | Bundesrepublik Deutschland | Exhibited at Musikinstrumentenmuseum, Berlin. |
| La Rouse Boughton | 1703 | Oesterreichische Nationalbank | On loan to Boris Kuschnir of the Kopelman Quartet. |
| Allegretti | 1703 | ||
| Alsager | 1703 | Previously sold by W. E. Hill & Sons, Hamma & Co. and Henry Werro. | |
| Aurora, ex-Foulis | 1703 | On loan to Karen Gomyo. | |
| Cobbett, Dickson-Poynder | 1703 | Walter Willson Cobbett | Certificate by W. E. Hill & Sons notes that violin is from 1703, even though label says 1715. Sold by Sotheby's in 1972. |
| Emiliani | 1703 | Ludwig Strauss, violinist Eva Mudocci, violinist, harpist Charlene Dilling Brewer, Anne-Sophie Mutter | |
| Ford | 1703 | Sir William Curtis, Elias Breeskin, Henry Ford | Since 2003, at the Henry Ford Museum. |
| Lady Harmsworth | 1703 | Paul Bartel | On loan to Kristóf Baráti by arrangement with the Stradivarius Society of Chicago. |
| de Rougemont, Gordon, Hart | 1703 | Luigi Tarisio, violinist Godfrey Ludlow, Henry Ford | |
| Rynberger, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia | 1703 | Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia | On exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum. |
| Schoofs, Vidoudez, Huber, Steiner-Schweitzer | 1703 | Mischa Elman | Sold by Bongartz's in 1998. |
| Betts | 1704 | United States Library of Congress | Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall. |
| ex-Liebig | 1704 | Baron Liebig Wolfgang Schneiderhan Rony Rogoff | Owned by Baron Liebig from 1911; Owned by Wolfgang Schneiderhan from 1952 to 1991; Owned by Rony Rogoff Currently owned by Dkfm Angelika Prokopp Privatstiftung, on loan to Julian Rachlin. |
| Glennie | 1704 | John Edward Betts | Sold at W. E. Hill & Sons in 1953. |
| Prince Obolensky | 1704 | On loan to Esther Yoo. | |
| Sleeping Beauty | 1704 | L-Bank | On loan to Isabelle Faust. One of the few Stradivari violins to have retained its original neck. |
| Viotti | 1704 | Giovanni Battista Viotti | Part of the Monetsugu Collectio in Tokyo, Japan. |
| Baron von der Leyen | 1705 | Private owner | Auctioned by Tarisio on 26 April 2012 for $2.6 million. |
| ex-Marsick; ex-Oistrakh | 1705 | David Fulton | Previously owned by David Oistrakh, acquired in trade for the 1702 Conte di Fontana. Currently on loan to James Ehnes. |
| 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 | |
| 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 | Sold at Christie's New York on 16 May 2006 for a record US$3,544,000 after five minutes of bidding. |
| 1707 | Russian State Collection, Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow. | ||
| Rivaz, Baron Gutmann | 1707 | J & A Beare Dextra Musica since 2016 | Formerly on loan to Janine Jansen. On loan to Eldbjørg Hemsing |
| 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 | On loan to the most recent winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition for violin, currently Stella Chen winner of the 2019 edition. |
| Empress Caterina | 1708 | Loaned to Brett Yang and Eddy Chen of TwoSet Violin in 2022. | |
| Regent, Superb | 1708 | Owned by the Fridart Foundation. | Loaned to Brett Yang and Eddy Chen of TwoSet Violin in 2022. |
| 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, circa 1850–1865 Wilma Neruda, 1872 | On loan to Dénes Zsigmondy through 2003. |
| Engleman | 1709 | Nippon Music Foundation. | On loan to Bora Kim. Previously loaned to Timothy Chooi, and |
| King Maximilian; Unico | 1709 | Axel Springer Foundation | On loan to Michel Schwalbé, concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic ; 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. |
| ex-Nachéz | 1709 | Previously played by Elisabetta Garetti. Now played by Roman Simovic, Leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, courtesy of Jonathan Moulds, chair of the LSO Advisory Council. | |
| Marie Hall | 1709 | Giovanni Battista Viotti Chimei Museum | Named after violinist Marie Hall. |
| ex-Scotta | 1709 | On loan to Pekka Kuusisto. | |
| La Pucelle | 1709 | Huguette Clark David L. 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 | It was on loan to Svetlin Roussev. Since 2023 it has been loaned to María Dueñas. |
| Lord Dunn–Raven | 1710 | Anne-Sophie Mutter | |
| ex-Roederer | 1710 | On loan to David Grimal.. | |
| 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. |
| Dancla Stradivarius (1703) | 1703 | Linus Roth | The Dancla is now owned by the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and on loan to renowned German violinist Linus Roth. |
| Dancla Stradivarius (1708) | 1708 | In 1913 luthiers of Caressa & Français wrote a letter stating that the violin was "fully authentic, totally guaranteed and in a remarkable state of conservation" | |
| 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 violinist Nathan Milstein. |
| Davis | 1710 | Mr. and Mrs. William S. Davis | On loan to Michael Shih, concertmaster, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. |
| ex-Kittel | 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 a storeroom on the estate of the Earl of Plymouth 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 | 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 Feliz. |
| Dubois | 1713 | Canimex, Inc | On loan to Nikki 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 to Juan Pablo Reynoso | |
| Sancy | 1713 | Ivry Gitlis | |
| Gibson | 1713 | Stolen twice from Huberman. | |
| Lady Ley | 1713 | Stradivarius family | Owned by Jue Yao, Chinese violinist. |
| Wirth | 1713 | ||
| Dolphin; Delfino | 1714 | Jascha Heifetz Nippon Music Foundation | On loan to Timothy Chooi and previously loaned to Ray 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 | ||
| ex-Berou; ex-Thibaud | 1714 | Jacques Thibaud | Previously owned by David Oistrakh. |
| Le Maurien | 1714 | Missing: stolen 2002. | |
| 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 million in February 2025 to fund a new scholarship. |
| Sinsheimer; General Kyd; Perlman | 1714 | Itzhak Perlman David L. Fulton | Formerly loaned to Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg |
| 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 | Ex Fulton, sold in March 2025 to an anonymous buyer for $23 million | |
| 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, Cremona, Italy. |
| Emperor | 1715 | Sold to Jan Kubelík in 1910 for £10,000. | |
| Duke of Cambridge; ex-Pierre Rode | 1715 | Janine Jansen | |
| Joachim | 1715 | Nippon Music Foundation | the ’Joachim-Aranyi’ is so named as it once belonged to Joseph Joachim, who bequeathed it to his great-niece Adela d’Aranyi. It was loaned to Angelo Xiang Yu in 2019. The foundation announced its loan to Japanese violinist Risa Hokamura, Silver medalist of the 2018 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, in 2023. |
| 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 | Previously owned by Efrem Zimbalist. Purchased by Felix M. Warburg circa 1926 as part of a quartet set for the Institute of Musical Art's Musical Art Quartet, played by Sascha Jacobsen. |
| Ex Adolf Busch | 1716 | Owned by David Garrett since 2010. | |
| Berthier | 1716 | Baron Vecsey de Vecse Fondazione Pro Canale | On loan to Anna Tifu |
| Booth | 1716 | Nippon Music Foundation | On loan to Arabella Steinbacher; formerly loaned to Shunsuke Sato; formerly loaned to Julia Fischer. |
| Cessole | 1716 | ||
| Cherubini | 1716 | Galleria dell'Accademia | On exhibition at the Galeria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy |
| Colossus | 1716 | Luigi Alberto Bianchi | Missing; stolen in Rome, Italy, in November 1998. |
| Duranti | 1716 | On loan to Mariko Senju since 2002. | |
| 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 | 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. It is considered to be the only remaining Stradivarius violin in as new state. |
| ex-Windsor-Weinstein; Fite | 1716 | Canada Council for the Arts | On loan to Timothy Chooi. |
| Baron Wittgenstein | 1716 | Bulgarian Ministry of Culture | Formerly owned by John Corigliano Sr.. 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. Jaime Laredo | Owned by Jonathan Moulds, Chair of the LSO Advisory Council. On long-term loan to Nicola Benedetti. |
| ex-Wieniawski | 1717 | Henryk Wieniawski | |
| ex-Baumgartner | 1717 | Rudolf Baumgartner, Lucerne Festival Strings | On loan to Daniel Dodds. |
| Toenniges | 1717 | Strad with the Vuillaume Back Lawrence Welk Dick Kesner | Dick Kesner Paul Toenniges |
| Kochanski | 1717 | Pierre Amoyal Paweł Kochański | Stolen in 1987; recovered in 1991. |
| Sasserno | 1717 | Nippon Music Foundation. | Loaned to Viviane Hagner until 2012. Loaned to Alina Pogostkina. On loan to Ji Young Lim |
| 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 to 1993. |
| San Lorenzo | 1718 | Georg Talbot | |
| ex-Count Vieri | 1718 | The collection of Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei. | |
| ex-Prové | 1718 | Played by Ilya Gringolts | |
| Lauterbach | 1719 | Johann Christoph Lauterbach J.B. Vuillaume Charles Philippe Lafont | |
| 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 by Rudolf Koelman. | - |
| ex-Bavarian | 1720 | Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| Madrileño | 1720 | ||
| 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. The Lady Blunt was last sold at London auction house Tarisio on 20 June 2011 for £9,808,000, 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 | Inspiration for the 1998 film, The Red Violin Formerly part of the von Mendelssohn family quartet of Stradivari's in Berlin. | |
| Birsou | 1721 | Formerly owned by Metropolitan Museum of Art. Joan Field, an American violinist also known as one of its owners, played the Birsou from 1921 to 1929. In 2002, Joshua Bell recorded O'mio Babbino Caro on the Birsou. | |
| The MacMillan | 1721 | Tossy Spivakovsky | Loaned to Ray Chen through Young Concert Artists from 2008 to 2012; on loan to Ning Feng through Premiere Performances of Hong Kong. |
| 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 | On loan to Ryu Goto; formerly to Midori Goto, Daishin Kashimoto, and Manrico Padovani. |
| Laub–Petschnikoff | 1722 | ||
| Elman | 1722 | Chimei Museum | On loan to William Wei |
| Cádiz | 1722 | Joseph Fuchs | On loan to Jennifer Frautschi; named after the city of Cádiz, Spain. |
| Rode | 1722 | Currently used by Erzhan Kulibaev by courtesy of the Maggini Foundation. | |
| ex-Vallot | 1722 | Edwin Sherrard Oberlin Conservatory of Music. | 2015 restored by John K. Becker of Chicago. |
| Kiesewetter | 1723 | Christophe Kiesewetter 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. Since 2010, on loan to Augustin Hadelich, through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. |
| Earl Spencer | 1723 | On loan to Nicola Benedetti. | |
| 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 the Conservatoire de Musique in memory of his student days. On display at the museum. | |
| Ex-Szigeti, Ludwig | 1724 | Bears the inscription: "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1724". Since 1989 in the possession of the Landesbank 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 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 | 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". |
Late period: 1726–1737
| 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 to Janine Jansen, now on loan to. | |
| 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 | Rodolphe Kreutzer, Maxim Vengerov | One of four Stradivari violins with the sobriquet Kreutzer. |
| 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. On loan to Augustin Dumay. Previously played by Kirill Troussov and Maxim Vengerov, who now owns and plays the Stradivarius Kreutzer. |
| 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. 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. |
| 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. |
| Artôt-Godowsky | 1728 | Named after first owner Alexandre Artôt. | |
| Dragonetti-Milanollo | 1728 | 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. |
| Innes | 1729 | On loan to Eugen Sârbu; previously loaned to Henryk 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 | Sold for $338,500 at Christie's, New York, in October 2008. | |
| Accademia | 1730 | Seattle Symphony Orchestra - Tarisio - Accademia Concertante - owner unknown | Played by young talented musicians of Accademia Concertante d'Archi di Milano - Information: Antonio Stradivari: The complete works - Beares publishing - V vol |
| Ex-Neveu | 1730 | Marcel Vatelot | Produced by Omobono Stradivari. Purchased by Ginette Neveu in 1935 to enter the Wieniawski Competition. Was lost in a 1949 aircraft crash in the Azores along with Neveu. |
| Royal Spanish | 1730 | Anne Akiko Meyers | Once owned by the King of Spain. |
| Tritton | 1730 | Kolja Blacher | |
| 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 sobriquet Kreutzer. Failed to sell at Christie's in New York on 18 June 2014. |
| 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 to Giuliano Carmignola for the DG recording of Vivaldi: Concertos for Two Violins. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Donated to the foundation by Sylvan in 2015. | |
| ex-Dollfus | 1732 | Played by Helena Rathbone on loan from anonymous Australian benefactors | |
| Des Rosiers | 1733 | Angèle Dubeau | Previously owned by Arthur Leblanc |
| Huberman; Kreisler | 1733 | Bronisław Huberman Fritz Kreisler | |
| Khevenhüller | 1733 | Johann, 2nd Prince of Khevenhüller-Metsch, Yehudi Menuhin | |
| Rode | 1733 | Currently used by Vadim Repin | |
| Ames | 1734 | Roman Totenberg | Stolen in May 1980, found June 2015, returned to Totenberg family on 6 August 2015. 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 | ||
| Habeneck | 1734 | Royal Academy of Music | |
| Herkules; Ysaÿe; ex-Szeryng; also Kinor 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 as Kinor David to the City of Jerusalem. According to his wish, the violin is to be played by the concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. | |
| Willemotte | 1734 | Maria Lidka;acquired by Leonidas Kavakos in 2017. | |
| Lord Amherst of Hackney | 1734 | Fritz Kreisler | |
| Lamoureux; ex-Zimbalist | 1735 | Missing: stolen. | |
| Samazeuilh | 1735 | Nippon Music Foundation | On loan to Ray Chen. |
| 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. | |
| Spiritus Sorsana | 1736 | David Montagu | |
| Yusupov | 1736 | House of Yusupov, Russian State Collection, Glinka Museum, Moscow. | Previously loaned to David Oistrakh |
| Comte d'Amaille | 1737 | ||
| Lord Norton | 1737 | - |
Violas
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 violist Antoine Tamestit. |
| Tuscan-Medici Tenor | 1690 | Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini Galleria dell'Accademia Florence, Italy | On exhibition Part of the Medici Quartet |
| Tuscan-Medici | 1690 | Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany Herbert N. Straus Cameron Baird Library of Congress | Commissioned by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Part of the Medici Quartet |
| Axelrod | 1695 | Donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod. Now part of the Axelrod quartet. | |
| Archinto | 1696 | Royal Academy of Music. | For elegance and grandeur, and in view of its remarkable state of preservation, the "Archinto" of 1696 is arguably the best example known. |
| Spanish Court | 1696 | Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain. | Collectively known as el Cuarteto Real when included with the violin duo los Decorados and the Spanish Court cello of 1694. |
| MacDonald | 1719 | Purchased as part of a quartet of Stradivari for $200,000 by banker Felix M. Warburg in the 1920s. The quartet was frequently loaned to the Musical Art Quartet for performances, where it was played by Louis Kaufman. Was to be sold at auction through London musical instruments auction house Ingles & Hayday in conjunction with Sotheby'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. | |
| Lux; Castelbarco | 1714 | Fridart Foundation | Converted from viol to viola by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume. |
| The Russian | 1715 | Russian State Collection | |
| Cassavetti | 1727 | United States Library of Congress | Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall. |
| Paganini-Mendelssohn | 1731 | Nippon Music Foundation | This viola, and the Paganini-Desaint violin of 1680, the Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727 and the Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, comprise the Paganini 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. |
Cellos
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 by Philip Glass for Academia de Arte de Florencia, on loan to Nadège Rochat | Originally made by Nicolo Amati as a viola da gamba c. 1620, reworked into a cello by Amati's student, Antonio Stradivari. |
| 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. |
| Marylebone | 1688 | Donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod; part of the Axelrod quartet. | |
| Medici | 1690 | Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini Galleria dell'Accademia Florence, Italy | Displayed to the public in the Museo degli Strumenti Musicali as part of the collection of the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini, accessed through the Galleria dell'Accademia; part of the Medici Quintet. The Medici Cello is one of the only three surviving Stradivari cellos of large dimensions that have not been reduced in size |
| Barjansky | 1690 | Alexandre Barjansky Julian Lloyd Webber | |
| ex-Gendron; ex-Lord Speyer | 1693 | Edgar Speyer; Kunststiftung NRW | On loan to Maria Kliegel; previously loaned to Maurice Gendron. |
| Spanish Court or Decorado | 1694 | Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain | Collectively known as Quinteto Real or Quinteto Palatino when included with the violin duo, los Decorados, Bajo Palatino cello of 1700 and the Spanish Court viola of 1696. Is the original quartet. See Juan Ruiz Casaux. |
| Bajo Palatino | 1700 | Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain | collectively known as Quinteto Palatino or Quinteto Palatino when included with the violin duo, los Decorados, Spanish Court cello of 1694 and the Spanish Court viola of 1696. |
| Bonjour | 1696 | Abel Bonjour Robert Cohen Canada Council for the Arts | On loan to. |
| Lord Aylesford | 1696 | Nippon Music Foundation | On loan to Pablo Ferrández; previously loaned to Danjulo Ishizaka and Janos Starker. |
| Castelbarco | 1699 | United States Library of Congress | Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall. |
| Cholmondeley Cello | 1698 | Anonymous collector | Purchased in 1988 for a record 682,000 |
| Stauffer; ex-Cristiani | 1700 | Jean Louis Duport Elise Barbier Cristiani | On display at the Museo Civico Ala Ponzone. |
| Servais | 1701 | National Museum of American History | On display at the National Museum of American History. |
| Paganini-Countess of Stanlein | 1707 | Bernard Greenhouse | Sold in January 2012 for ca. $6 million to Montreal arts patron; on loan to Stéphane Tétreault. |
| Boni-Hegar | 1707 | owned by Christen Sveaas | On loan to Andreas Brantelid |
| Boccherini; Romberg | 1709 | Formerly played by Pablo 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. The cello features in the movie Woman in Gold, being played by Bloch-Bauer, who had been loaned the instrument for life by the Rothschild family. |
| Duport | 1711 | Mstislav Rostropovich | |
| Mara | 1711 | Heinrich Schiff Amedeo Baldovino | Lost in July 1963 when ferry SS Ciudad de Asuncion between Montevideo and Buenos Aires caught fire and sank; later recovered in pieces in its case and rebuilt by W.E. Hill & Sons. |
| Davidov | 1712 | Count Matvei Wielhorski Karl Davidov Jacqueline du Pré | On loan to Yo-Yo Ma. |
| Batta-Piatigorsky | 1714 | Currently displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. | |
| de Vaux | 1717 | On loan to. | |
| Amaryllis Fleming | 1717 | ex-Blair-Oliphant, ex-Hegar, ex-Kühn, ex-Küchler | Formerly owned by Amaryllis 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 luthier José Contreras; auctioned in 2008. |
| 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. Displayed at the South Kensington Special Exhibition of 1872. Purchased as part of a quartet of Stradivari for $200,000 by banker Felix 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. In 1968, Warburg's son Gerald Felix Warburg—a cellist himself—sold the instrument to. Other owners included Narcisse Girard, Jules Gallay, and Martin Lovett. On loan to Henri Demarquette. |
| Haussman | 1724 | Hausman family Max Adler Chuck Meyer | 1839–1861: Georg Hausmann. 1861–1909: Robert Hausmann. 1909–1927: Mrs. Hausmann. 1927–1944: Max Adler & family. 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 by Hugo 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 to Steven Isserlis. |
| Comte de Saveuse | 1726 | Comte de Saveuse d'Abbeville, Edward Latter, Archibald Hartnell, Michael Edmonds, subsequently lent to Michael Evans. | |
| De Munck; ex-Feuermann | 1730 | On loan to Camille Thomas | |
| Pawle | 1730 | Once loaned to Yo-Yo Ma in 1999 when Petunias neck was damaged before a concert in Taiwan. | |
| Braga | 1731 | Gaetano Braga | On loan to Myung-wha Chung. |
| Stuart | 1732 | Frederick the Great, Steven Honigberg, Sergei Roldugin | According to Vladimir Putin, his friend Sergei Roldugin bought the instrument for $12M. |
| Paganini-Ladenburg | 1736 | This cello, and the Paganini-Desaint violin of 1686, the Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727 and the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola of 1731, comprise the Paganini Quartet. On loan to Raphael Paratore from. |
Guitars
Five complete guitars by Stradivari exist, and a few fragments of others – including the neck of a sixth guitar, owned by the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris. These guitars have ten strings, which was typical of the era.| Sobriquet | Year | Provenance | Notes |
| Hill | 1688 | Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University | ex-Kabayao-Dolfus Stradivarius 1724 |
| Sabionari | 1679 | 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. | |
| Rawlins | 1700 | National Music Museum, South Dakota. | Previously owned by violinist Louis Krasner. |
| Vuillaume | 1711 | Cite de la Musique, Paris | Owned by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume; acquired 1880 |