{{Short description|1716 violin named for its former owner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} The '''''Otto Booth; Cho-Ming Sin Stradivarius'''''<ref name="NameIssue">The sobriquet of this instrument is referred differently in various sources. While Doring (1999) and Henley (1961) referred it as "Booth", Goodkind (1972) referred it as "Booth; Cho-Ming Sin" probably in an attempt to name the then owner. See: '''Doring, Ernest N. (1999)''' ''How Many Strads?'' – Our Heritage from the Master Enlarged and expanded edition by Robert Bein & Geoffrey Fushi Bein & Fushi, Inc., Chicago, Illinois: 1999; '''Henley, William (1961)''' ''Antonio Stradivari – His Life and Instruments''. 1961, Amati Publishing Ltd., Brighton (England). </ref><ref name="Goodkind">''Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari: 1644 – 1737''. Published by the author, Goodkind, Herbert K. (1972) Larchmont, New York.</ref> of 1716 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) of Cremona. The original label of the instrument was ''"Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1716"''. The ''Booth Stradivarius'' has a two-piece back and has a body length of 35.4 cm.<ref name="Cozio">{{cite web |url=http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=57 |title=Cozio.com: Violin by Antonio Stradivari, 1716 (Otto Booth, Cho-Ming Sin) |accessdate=2011-03-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521221842/http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=57 |archivedate=2011-05-21 }}, www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=57</ref>
The ''Booth'' receives its name after a former owner, Madame Wilhelm von Booth who purchased the instrument in 1855 for her son Otto van Booth to be played in a Stradivari quartet.<ref name="Cozio" /> Otto van Booth sold the instrument in 1889 to George Hart, an instrument dealer in London, and the instrument has since been used in concerts. In 1930, ''Booth'' was sold at an auction by the American Art Association, New York to Rudolph Wurlitzer Company and played by the renowned Ukrainian-born violinist Mischa Mischakoff from 1931 to 1961.<ref name="Cozio" /> After 1961, the instrument became a part of the Henry Hottinger Collection in New York.<ref name="Nippon">[http://www.nmf.or.jp/english/instrument/instruments.html], Stradivarius 1716 violin " Booth ", Instruments owned by the Nippon Music Foundation.</ref> Cho-Ming Sin from whom the instrument received one of its sobriquets owned the instrument until 1978.<ref name="Cozio" /><ref name="Goodkind"/> For a time, the instrument was owned and played by violinist Iona Brown, who after a 1998 Tokyo performance of ''The Lark Ascending'', returned the instrument to its case declaring: "It was received so rapturously by the audience that I went back to my dressing room, put my violin in its case and said: 'I'm not going to do it anymore.' I felt it was best to go out on a high note." (''The Lark Ascending'' ends on one of the highest notes on the violin). She never played the violin again, citing her arthritis and age.<ref name=iona>{{cite web| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1464162/Iona-Brown.html |title=Iona Brown |work=The Telegraph |date=11 June 2004 |accessdate= 2 March 2011}}</ref> She sold the instrument in 1999.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite web| url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |title=Obituary: Iona Brown |work=The Guardian |date=10 June 2004 |accessdate=2 March 2011}}</ref>
Since 1999, The ''Booth'' is owned by the Nippon Music Foundation and loaned to distinguished violinists.<ref name="Nippon" />
After Iona Brown, the German violinist Julia Fischer played the instrument from 2000 to the summer of 2004, until she purchased a 1742-made (1750-reworked) Guadagnini.<ref name="srings No.139">{{cite web| url=http://www.stringsmagazine.com/article/139/139,3628,Feature-3.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312125252/http://www.stringsmagazine.com/article/139/139,3628,Feature-3.asp |archive-date=12 March 2011 |title=Embracing the Eternal |work= Strings magazine |date=May 2006 |number=139}}</ref><ref name="WQXR interview on January 4, 2006">[http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/common-article.html?record=4045]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, WQXR interview on 4 January 2006</ref> After Julia Fischer, the Japanese violinist Shunske Sato played the instrument.
The ''Booth'' was later loaned to the German violinist Arabella Steinbacher.<ref name="Steinbacher">{{cite web |url=http://www.arabella-steinbacher.de/english/c_about.htm |title=Arabella Steinbacher – the official homepage |accessdate=2011-03-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718200412/http://www.arabella-steinbacher.de/english/c_about.htm |archivedate=2011-07-18 }}, Interview with Arabella Steinbacher.</ref>
==See also== *{{cozio|57}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.nmf.or.jp/english/instrument/instruments.html The list of instruments owned (and loaned) by the Nippon Music Foundation]
Category:1716 works Category:Stradivari violins