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1708 - Violin "Huggins"

Back of one piece of curly maple to broad curl descendant to the right. Plentiful dark orange-red varnish.

  • 1708, Cremona
  • Original
  • 35.4 cm
  • 16.8 cm
  • 11.2 cm
  • 20.7 cm
  • Tokyo (J), Nippon Music Foundation
  • W. E. Hill & Sons, London, November 30, 1928; Emil Herrmann, Berlin, New York, Easton, 1931
  • Zlatko Balokovic (New York) 1928; Cho-Liang Lin 1990/91; Nikolaj Znaider 1997/99; Baiba Skride 2001/05; Sergey Khachatryan 2005/09; Ray Chen 2009/10; Andrey Baranov 2012
  • Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris) 1850; Carl Zack (Vienna) 1880; W.E. Hill & Sons 1880/82; Sir William Huggins 1882/1902; W.E. Hill & Sons; Richard Bennett (Southport, Lancashire); W.E. Hill & Sons 1919; Felix E. Kahn 1919/24; Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. 1924; Gustavo Herten (Buenos Ayres) 1924; W.E. Hill & Sons 1928; Zlatko Balokovic (New York) 1928; Emil Herrmann 1931; Carl Petschek 1931; Cho-Liang Lin 1990/91; Nippon Music Foundation 1995
  • In 1997 Nippon Music Foundation started to loan this violin to the grand prize winner of The Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Belgium in order to support the Competition and the young promising players.
  • Hill 1902; Doring 1945; Henley 1961; Goodkind 1972
creato:martedì 5 giugno 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017