Nippon Music Foundation
The Nippon Music Foundation (NMF) is an organisation under the supervision of the Arts and Culture Promotion Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs, a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education. Established 3 March 1972, its stated purpose is to develop international networks of music and foster public interest in music.
Instruments
NMF has in its endowment one of the largest collections of antique instruments made by luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), with an additional two by Giuseppe Guarneri (1698-1744).
Violin
- 1736 Muntz
- 1740 Ysaÿe
Cello
- 1696 Aylesford
- 1730 Feuermann; De Munck; Gardiner
- 1736 Paganini; Ladenburg
Viola
Violin
- 1680 Paganini; Desaint
- 1702 Lord Newlands
- 1706 Dragonetti
- 1708 Huggins
- 1709 Engleman
- 1710 Duc de Camposelice
- 1714 Dolphin; Delfino
- 1715 Joachim-Aranyi
- 1716 Otto Booth
- 1717 Sasserno
- 1722 Jupiter; ex-Goding
- 1725 Wilhelmj
- 1727 Paganini; Comte Cozio di Salabue
- 1736 Muntz
See also
References
- "Nippon Music Foundation Profile". Nippon Music Foundation. November 2007. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
- "Instruments Owned by NMF". Nippon Music Foundation. November 2007. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
External links
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