Nippon Music Foundation

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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.

[edit] 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).

Guarneri del gesù

• 1736 Muntz, violin
• 1740 Ysaÿe, violin

Stradivarius

Cello

• 1696 Aylesford
• 1730 Feuermann; De Munck; Gardiner
• 1736 Paganini; Ladenburg

Viola

• 1731 Paganini; Mendelssohn

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

[edit] References

• Nippon Music Foundation Profile. Nippon Music Foundation (November 2007). Retrieved on 2008-02-05.
• Instruments Owned by NMF. Nippon Music Foundation (November 2007). Retrieved on 2008-02-05.