The Italian luthier Andrea Amati crafted the first modern violin in 1555, and music was never the same. A century later, Paduan music master Bartolomeo Cristofori cobbled together the first modern ...

Rising NYC septet All Boy/All Girl celebrate the release of their new single “Andrea Amati” with a live performance video, premiering today. All Boy/All Girl thrive on complexity, crafting carefully ...

It was here, in the 16th century, that the violin as we know it was born, carved into existence by the hands of master craftsman Andrea Amati. The description of Amati’s shop is purely imagined. The ...

And Andrea Amati is the maker that started the tradition of violin making in Cremona. ANDREA SHEA: Coppiardio himself is from Cremona. The Northern Italian city was a hot-bed of violinmaking from ...

Made in the mid-1500s by Andrea Amati, the founding master of the Cremonese violin tradition, it remains an iconic masterwork of the Italian Renaissance.

Andrea Amati constructed the instrument in Cremona, Italy, and through his sons several generations would make the Amati name integral to stringed instrument evolution.

Andrea Amati made the first violin in 1564 in Cremona, Italy. One hundred and two years later in 1666 Stradivari made his first violin.

Highlights from the exhibit include a Baroque guitar from 1590, the oldest full-size guitar in existence. There is a violin and viola crafted by master Cremonese luthier Andrea Amati that was ...

Music historians have long suspected that the inventors of the violin wanted to imitate the human voice, and a study out on Monday shows how 16th to 18th century luthiers in Italy did it. Researchers ...