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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
[edit]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; Conte Cozio di Salabue
- 1736 Muntz
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- "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.
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