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Cádiz Stradivarius

antique violin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ5202318 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Cádiz Stradivarius of 1722 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) of Cremona. The instrument is named after the city Cádiz, Spain where it resided for eighty years. In 1946 it was acquired by American violinist Joseph Fuchs, and is currently owned by a private American foundation. The Cádiz is on loan to violinist Jennifer Frautschi.

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“Cádiz Stradivarius” enters the record as antique violin. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cádiz, Stradivarius and antique can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1722, 1644, 1737, 1946—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1722. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cádiz, Stradivarius and antique.
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“Cádiz Stradivarius” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cádiz, Stradivarius and antique provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5202318. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1722, 1644, 1737 and 1946.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cádiz Stradivarius” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.