These instruments were made by A. Stradivari and once posessed by Paganini. Later they have been posessed by Nihon Ongaku Zaidan and now lent to Tokyo String Quartet. [167]

'I heard an angel sing in the Agadio' said Robert Schumann after hearing Paganini. About the 1724 violin Paganini said: 'This violin has a tone as big as a double bass, never will I sell it as long as I live.' [104]

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Kathleen Parlow was the first foreigner accepted to study in the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1906). [109]; [81]

Teachers:

• Coward, Conrad
• Holms, Henry - San Francisco
• Auer, Leopold - St. Petersburg Conservatory

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Ms. Patipatanakoon is laureate of Belgium's Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition in 1989. [33]

Teachers:

• Elson, Lise
• Rosand, Aaron
• Gulli, Franco
• Fried, Miriam

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On her Guarneri del Gesů Peinemann says: '... It's 1732, which I always remember because the clock on the Frauenkirche in Zurich has the same date. I use it exclusively because it's such a fantastic violin. It has a wonderful D string - it's so even across the strings. It's good for everything.'

Aged 19 Peinemann won the first prize at the ARD international competence of the German Radio in Munich. She is recipient of the 'Plaquette Eugčne Ysaye 1858 - 1958' previously awarded only to Oistrakh, Kogan and Grumiaux. In 1976 she was appointed as professor at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt to give master classes. From 1995 until 2000 she taught in Lucerne.

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Teachers:

• Peinemann, Robert (her father)
• Stanske, Heinz - Heidelberg (1951 - 53)
• Rostal, Max - London (1953 - 56)

Pupils:

• Dimitrova, Ina - Winner of the Kulemkampff Competition
• Machida, Kotowa - Member of the Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin
• Zack, Herwig - Professor for Violin and Chamber Music at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg

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Perlman got his second Stradivarius the Soil 1986. He no longer owns the General Kyd, which was also owned by Sinsheimer.

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Sergio Peresson, Philadelphia (USA), is a modern instrument maker. He died 1991.

Dedicated works:

• Goehr, Alexander:Romance

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Rachlin's instrument - the ex Carrodus - is a loan of the Austrian National Bank.

The Ruby is owned by Mary Galvin and is lent by the Stradivari Society of Chicago. Formerly, from 1985 to 1989, Repin was using the Stradivari dated 1720, which was said to have belonged to Henrik Wieniawski. It was lent from the USSR national collection but he had to return it when he moved to Germany in 1989.

Douglas Pudney: 'Amongst his collection of violins he - Ricci - especially favours a Guarneri which belonged to his ditinguished predecessor Bronislaw Huberman.' [134]
In a record of Decca titled "The Glory of Cremona" Ricci plays on the last 12 instruments listed here. Ricci on instruments: '...Generally speaking, the more output and resource an instrument has, the more difficult it is to handle. Ultimately, it is the player who must adapt himself to his violin if it is to respond to its best advantage.' [190]

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Teachers:

• Röhn, Andreas
• Chumachenco, Ana - Musikhochschule Munich

At the time Romberg and his cousin Andreas Romberg played in the Bonn Chapel they made friends with Beethoven and the Ries family. With Beethoven and Franz Ries the Rombergs formed a quartet. In 1782, when Germany was invaded by the French, Beethoven and Romberg escaped together working as kitchen boys on a Rhine river boat.
Romberg had a great influence on cello playing of his time as well as on several generations of pupils.

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Teachers:

• Romberg, Anton - Munster
• Schlick, Johan Konrad
• Marteau, Franz

Pupils:

• Kummer, Friedrich
• Norblin, Pierre
• Romberg, Cyprian
• Prell, August
• Press, Adolf
• Wielhosrsky, Mathieu

Rosand on his Kochanski Guarneri del Gesú dated 1741: 'With the first notes I played on this magical instrument, I lost my heart. Every time I visited Wurlitzer's, I spent a couple of hours practicing on the 'Kochanski' My dream was, one day, to own this violin which was superior to any other I had experienced, both in tonal quality and aesthetic appearance'. [142]

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On the sound of instruments Rostropovich says: 'Modern music requires different sounds - often a harsher sound for the cello to rise above the orchestra. My Stradivary is incredibly bautiful, but as a performer I don't always need a beautiful sound and use modern instruments where appropriate'. [166]

Dedicated works:

• Penderecki, Krzysztof:Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1982)

Roth plays the Dancla 1703 Strad on loan from the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. He is winner of numerous prizes:

• "Jugend Musiziert" in 1992 (1st prize)
• "International Violin Competition Novosibirsk" in 1995 (1st prize)
• Music Competition Budapest "Joseph Szigeti" in 1997 (2nd prize)
• "Music Forum - Young Classic World" Award in 1999

Since 1998 he is scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Circle of Friends Foundation.

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Teachers:

• Chumachenco, Nicolas - Musikhochschule Freiburg i. Br.
• Bron, Zakhar - Lübeck (1993 - 1999)
• Chumachenco, Ana - Musikhochschule Zürich