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Andrea Amati (ca. 1505 - 1577, Cremona) was a luthier, from Cremona, Italy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Amati is credited with making the first instruments of the violin family that are in the form we use today. [ 3 ]
A claim that Andrea Amati received the first order for a violin from Lorenzo de' Medici in 1555 is invalid as Lorenzo de' Medici died in 1492. A number of Andrea Amati's instruments survived for some time, dating between 1538 (Amati made the first Cello called "The King" in 1538) and 1574.
The violin proved very popular, both among street musicians and the nobility; the French king Charles IX ordered Andrea Amati to construct 24 violins for him in 1560. [19] One of these "noble" instruments, the Charles IX, is the oldest surviving violin.
The first historical news about a free Cremona is from ... Cremona sided with him in order to gain his support against Crema, ... Andrea Amati (1505–1577), luthier.
Cello: with 'The King Violoncello' by Andrea Amati being the earliest known bass instrument of the violin family to survive. [55] Centrifugal Pump: the first machine that could be characterized as a centrifugal pump was a mud lifting machine that appeared as early as 1475 in a treatise by the Italian Renaissance engineer Francesco di Giorgio ...
Alumnas Amati, Ashby, Silvestre, Serdet: 1666 Possibly the earliest known violin by Stradivari. The instrument was last sold by J & A Beare. One of a few instruments that has a connection between Stradivarius and Nicola Amati, with whom Stradivarius may have worked as an apprentice. The violin includes the label Alumnus Nicolais Amati. [1] ex-Sachs
Veronica was 18 at the time; Andrea had just divorced his first wife, Enrica Cenzatti (with whom he shares two sons, Amos and Matteo), after 10 years of marriage. Veronica and Andrea in Milan ...
Born in Cremona, Andrea Amati's son and Girolamo Amati's brother, Antonio worked first with his father, then with his brother, in the same workshop. With the latter, he refined his construction technique and style. For about ten years, they co-signed their works with their Latinized names: "Antonius & Hieronymus Amati"