Definition of Nicolo amati

1. Noun. Italian violin maker in Cremona; taught the craft to Guarneri and Stradivari (1596-1684).

Exact synonyms: Amati, Nicola Amati
Generic synonyms: Violin Maker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicolo Amati

Nicolaitans
Nicolaite
Nicolas
Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas de Malebranche
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicole
Nicolette
Nicoll
Nicolle
Nicolle's stain
Nicolle's white mycetoma
Nicolls
Nicolo Amati
Nicolson
Nicomachean
Nicomedia
Nicopolitan
Nicopolitans
Nicosia
Nicosian
Nicosians
Nicotiana
Nicotiana alata
Nicotiana glauca
Nicotiana rustica
Nicotiana tabacum
Nicæa

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"Then came Stradivari, in many respects a most remarkable man, who actually superseded his master, nicolo amati, and was ranked during the eighteenth century ..."

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