1. 12:39 19th Dec 2011

    The ‘Molitor’ Stradivarius of 1697

    I never knew my violin-playing genes go this far back…this is SUCH an exciting discovery! Now, who wants to buy this Stradivarius for me…? :)

    [In 1804 Madame Récamier’s two violins passed to a young General in Napoleon’s army, the Count Gabriel-Jean-Joseph Molitor (1770-1849). Count Molitor was evidently a musician of some stature as well as a distinguished soldier under both Napoleon and the Bourbons. After Count Molitor died in 1849 the violins remained in the possession of the Molitor family for nearly 70 years.]