Andrea Amati [SEP] place of death
Andrea Amati
Andrea Amati was a luthier, from Cremona, Italy.
Amati is credited with making the first instruments of the violin family that are in the form we use today.
According to the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota:
Several of his instruments survive to the present day, and some of them can still be played.
Many of the surviving instruments were among a consignment of 38 instruments delivered to Charles IX of France in 1564.
Role in the development of the modern violin
instruments United Kingdom.
Instruments in the UK include Andrea Amati violins from the set delivered to Charles IX of France in 1564.
- Amati instruments at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
- Andrea Amati
- Violin, 1564 (ex–French royal collection)
- Viola
- Amati instruments at the Royal Academy of Music Museum, London
- Amati instrument at the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle
- Andrea Amati
- Violin, 1564 (ex French royal collection)
Extant Amati instruments United