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Definition of Nicolo Amati
1. Noun. Italian violin maker in Cremona; taught the craft to Guarneri and Stradivari (1596-1684).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicolo Amati
Literary usage of Nicolo Amati
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"The founder of the house, Andreas Guarnerius, whose instruments bear dates from
1650 to 1695, was a pupil of Nicolo Amati. The greatest of the family was ..."
2. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1902)
"After the Amatis came the family of the Guarneri, the first of whom was Andreas (circa
1625 to 1698), who was a pupil of Nicolo Amati. ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"He was then—as will be gathered later—twenty-two years of age and, it may be
assumed, had probably served an apprenticeship to Nicolo Amati for the seven or ..."
4. The Musical World (1857)
"In the seventeenth century, Georges Neumarkt, of Weimar, born in 1621, died in
1681, possessed a viola di gamba, by Nicolo Amati. In a moment of distress, ..."
5. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"... the veteran Nicolo Amati, at that time the acknowledged head of violin-making
at Cremona, with a very fine violin by Nicolo Amati himself, dated 1678. ..."
6. The Heart of Music: The Story of the Violin by Anna Alice Chapin (1906)
"In the Workshop of Amati 1 HEY were always busy in the workshop of Nicolo Amati.
Outside, life waxed and waned in Cremona ; powers battled at the gates, ..."
7. Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and by Thomas Lamb Phipson (1903)
"Then came Stradivari, in many respects a most remarkable man, who actually
superseded his master, Nicolo Amati, and was ranked during the eighteenth century ..."
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