AMATI, a family of celebrated Italian violin-makers, who lived and worked at Cremona, and are generally regarded as the founders of the Cremona school. There is considerable uncertainty as to the different members of the family, which was one of the oldest and noblest of the town.
Andrea, the eldest, appears to have been born some time between . Fétis mentions two instruments of Andrea Amati, which are dated 1546 and 1551; one of them a rebec with three...