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Andrea Amati

Italian luthier · Lived 1505 to 1577 · aged 72

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Andrea Amati was an Italian luthier from Cremona. Amati is credited with making the first instruments of the violin family that are in the form we use today. Several of his instruments survive to the present day, and some of them can still be played.

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This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence.This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence.Ex-Kurtz violin at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts (ca. 1560).Ex-Kurtz violin at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts (ca. 1560).

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Andrea Amati was an Italian luthier from Cremona. Amati is credited with making the first instruments of the violin family that are in the form we use today. 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 1574.

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Lived 1505 to 1577 · aged 72

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