Bonjour Stradivarius
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The Bonjour Stradivari cello was made by famous luthier Antonio Stradivari ca. 1696. The instrument is named after the amateur 19th-century Parisian cellist Abel Bonjour.
On the death of Bonjour sometime after 1885 the cello passed via Fridolin Hamma of Stuttgart to Dr. Hans Kühne of Cologne, who loaned the cello to the Stradivari Bicentennial exhibition in Cremona in 1937. The Habisreutinger Foundation of St. Gallen, Switzerland as well as Martin Lovett of the Amadeus Quartet have also owned the cello. The present owner acquired it in the fall of 1999 and it is currently on loan to The Canada Council for the Arts Instrument Bank, which then loans this instrument for 3 years to the winner of its national competition. It is currently loaned to Korean-Canadian cellist Soo Bae since 2006. It is currently valued at US$5 million.
[edit] External links
- Info about its current loan to the Canada Council
- 2007 Current info about its loan to the Canada Council
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