{"id":16271,"date":"2025-02-10T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=16271"},"modified":"2025-02-10T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:42:03","slug":"new-england-conservatory-auctions-stradivarius-violin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2025\/02\/10\/new-england-conservatory-auctions-stradivarius-violin\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Conservatory Auctions Stradivarius Violin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The prestigious Boston music school sold a Stradivarius violin for $11.25 million USD this week, raising funds for the school\u2019s students.<\/p>\n

Driving the news:<\/strong> On Friday February 7th, the New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston, MA auctioned off the \u201cJoachim-Ma\u201d Stradivarius violin. The \u201cJoachim-Ma\u201d was made in 1714 by the luthier Antonio Stradivari and played by Joseph Joachim\u2014for whom Johannes Brahms wrote his violin concerto\u2014and Si-Hon Ma\u2014a prestigious NEC graduate. Ma donated the violin to NEC in hopes it could one day be used to fund student scholarships. NEC partnered with the Sotheby\u2019s auction house <\/a>when selling the violin.<\/p>\n

Gimme the dirt:<\/strong> The \u201cJoachim-Ma\u201d violin sold for $11.25 million USD. Bidding for the instrument began at $8 million, although Sotheby\u2019s had anticipated it would sell for between $12 and 18 million. While very few instrumentalists can afford to drop upwards of $10 million on a violin, these priceless instruments are often purchased by collectors and loaned to players. In Canada, the Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank<\/a> offers an opportunity for young players to compete to borrow Stradivarius and other world-class instruments for three years at a time. Hopefully the \u201cJoachim-Ma\u201d will be played by plenty more talented violinists in years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The prestigious Boston music school sold a Stradivarius violin for $11.25 million USD this week, raising funds for the school\u2019s students.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":16272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[488,3,84],"tags":[56],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/02\/Stradivarius-Violin.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16273,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16271\/revisions\/16273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16271"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}