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. Cremona is a city in Northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left shore of the Po river in the middle of the Pianura padana (Po valley). ... Location within Switzerland St. ... The Amadeus Quartet was a world famous string quartet founded in 1947, with members Norbert Brainin (1923 - 2005), 1st violin Siegmund Nissel (b. ... The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, was introduced by Parliament in 1957. ... Soo Bae in 2007 with Stradivarius Bonjour cello Soo Bae (b. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...
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2007 Current info about its loan to the Canada Council
A Stradivarius (or "Strad") is a stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, especially by Antonio Stradivari.
The fame of Stradivarius Violins is not a modern phenomenon; the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is supposed to have owned one.
Another famous story is about a Stradivarius Cello, known as the "Duport" which has the spur marks of Emperor Napoleon, who scratched the cello when he tried to play it.
The 1696 BonjourStradivarius and the 1850 Shaw-Adam cello bow, on loan to Kaori Yamagami: The BonjourStradivarius cello, which Antonio Stradivari made sometime around 1696, is named for Abel Bonjour, an amateur Parisian musician who owned the cello until his death in 1885.
The 1689 Baumgartner Stradivarius, on loan to Alexandre Da Costa: This violin from the master's early period belonged to Étienne Périlhon of Paris, and then in the early 1960s to Mrs.
The 1700 Taft Stradivarius, on loan to Jasper Wood: This wonderful violin is an excellent example of the so-called Golden Age of Antonio Stradivari.
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