Antonio Stradivari

Italian stringed instrument maker (1643/1649-1737)

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Lived 1644–1737, aged 93Italy
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    1644–1737
    Aged 93
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Updated 2026-08-18

Three centuries gone and his violins still sell for millions — not as antiques but as instruments musicians believe cannot be matched. Stradivari's name became the standard by which every string instrument since is measured.

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Antonio Stradivari was an Italian luthier working from around 1644 until his death on 18 December 1737. Over that span he built violins, cellos, guitars, violas, and harps — an estimated 1,116 instruments in total, 960 of them violins. Around 650 survive today, including 450 to 512 violins. What sets them apart isn't just craft or age: musicians and collectors treat them as instruments that occupy a tier of their own, and the prices reflect it. The Latinized Stradivarius, or the shorthand Strad, became shorthand for an unattainable benchmark — the thing every maker since has chased and no one…

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