David Fulton is the most important private collector of Cremonese

Cremona

Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...

 instruments living today.
Born in 1944, he grew up in Eugene, Oregon, playing the violin from a young age. He studied computer science at the University of Chicago, and was the concertmaster of the University of Chicago Symphony while he was there.

Notable Instruments

Violins
Stradivari La Pucelle 1709

Stradivari "General Kyd, Perlman" 1714

Stradivari "Marsick" 1715

Stradivari "Baron d'Assignies" 1713

Stradivari "Alba, Herzog, Coronation" 1719

Stradivari "Sassoon" 1733

Stradivari "Baron Knoop, Bevan" 1715

Guarneri del Gesù "King Joseph" 1737

Guarneri del Gesù Stern, Panette, Balatre, Alard 1737

Guarneri del Gesù "Lord Wilton" 1742

Guarneri del Gesù "Haddock" 1734

Guarneri del Gesù "d'Egville" 1735

Guarneri del Gesù "Kemp, Emperor" 1738

Guarneri del Gesù "Carrodus" 1743

Pietro Guarneri, of Mantua

Pietro Giovanni Guarneri

Pietro Giovanni Guarneri , also known as Pietro da Mantua or Peter Guarnerius of Mantua was a violin maker of the Guarneri family who also worked as a professional musician. Today his instruments are very highly regarded, though quite rare...

 "Sapiro" 1698

Carlo Bergonzi "Kreisler, Perlman" 1735(?)

Violas

Andrea Guarneri

Andrea Guarneri

Andrea Guarneri was an Italian luthier and founder of the house of Guarneri violin makers.-Biography:Thought to be born in 1626 to Bartolomo Guarneri in the parish of Cremona, Italy, very little is known about Andrea Guarneri's family of origin...

 "Conte Vitale" 1676

Giuseppe Guadagnini "Wanamaker, Rolla" 1793

Girolamo Amati (II) 1703

Violoncelli

Stradivari "Basso of Spain, Adam" 1713

Pietro Guarneri, of Venice

Pietro Guarneri

Pietro Guarneri was an Italian luthier. Sometimes referred to as Pietro da Venezia, he was the son of Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, filius Andreae, and the last of the Guarneri house of violin-makers...

 "Beatrice Harrison" 1739 (?)

Montagnana

Domenico Montagnana

Domenico Montagnana was an Italian master luthier based in Venice, Italy. He is regarded as one of the world's finest violin and cello makers of his time....

"George Gudgeon" 1737