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It is unknown who the first owner of the Lipinski Strad was, but one of the first was the Italian violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini .

Tartini composed his famous 'Devil's Sonata' after experiencing a dream in which he let the devil play his violin, and he heard a beautiful sonata which he was unable to compare with anything he had ever heard, and Tartini tried to reproduce the sound he had heard.

Tartini gave it to his pupil, Signor Salvini, in 1818. After hearing the Polish violinist Karol Lipinski perform, Salvini asked to see his violin which he then smashed to pieces. Salvini handed the shocked Lipinski the Stradivarius that he had received from his teacher, Tartini. Lipinski then became the new owner. This violin that Salvini gave him would become known as the ''Lipinski Strad''.


CHRONOLOGY OF THE VIOLIN’S OWNERS

  • Giuseppe Tartini

  • Salvini (in Milan)

  • Karol Lipinski

  • Richard Weichold, instrument dealer (in Dresden, 1861)

  • Prof. Engelbert Röntgen (in Leipzig)

  • Unknown

  • Hill & Sons, instrument dealers (in London, 1899)

  • Unknown amateur musician (in Holland)

  • Hill & Sons, instrument dealers (in London)

  • Unknown

  • Hamma, instrument dealers (in Germany)

  • Unknown

  • Wurlitzer - New York (1922)

  • Unknown

  • Roger Chittolini

  • Dr. José Martínez Cañas (in Havana, 1941)

  • Ángel Reyes (in Havana)

  • Wurlitzer, instrument dealers (in New York, 1960)

  • Unknown

  • The violin has been missing since its last sale in 1962.


Note: Joseph Joachim , Liivak, Malonzenoff and Persinger are also known to have owned the instrument.


SEE ALSO:

  • Stradivarius (included a list of Stradivari’s instruments)



SOURCES

  • Faber, Toby. ''Stradivarius: Five Violins, One Cello and a Genius'' (Macmillan)

  • Doring, Ernest N. ''How Many Strads? Our Heritage from the Master'', Enlarged and expanded edition by Robert Bein & Geoffrey Fushi (Bein & Fushi, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 1999)