Violin masters biography

Home Amati Nikolo Amati Nicolo - - Amati is the oldest family of Italian masters of bowing instruments. The ancestor of the school of violin masters in the Italian cream Andrea Amati belonged to one of the old surnames of the city. For the first time, Amati installed the type of violin as an instrument approaching in its expressiveness to the timbre of the human voice soprano.

Andrea first determined the selection of a tree characteristic of a crescent school: maple, spruce or fir, sometimes a pear and a plain. The classic violin type created by him remained mainly unchanged. All subsequent improvements made by other masters mainly concerned sound strength. Currently, Andrea Amati's tools are rare. The most famous representative of the Niccolo Amati family, the grandson of Andrea, brought the type of violin, developed by the masters of Amati, to perfection.

In some enlarged format violins, the so -called Grand Amati, the master enhanced the sound, preserving the softness and tenderness of the timbre. With the grace of form, its instruments make a more monumental impression than the work of its predecessors. There are few tools of its work, and they are very high. The student of Nikolo Amati was the greatest master of bow instruments Antonio Stradivari.

He began to make tools very early: the violin with etiquette has been preserved, indicating that it was made by Antonio Stradivari at the age of 13. For many years, Stradivarvari worked in the style of his teacher Nikolo Amati. The master was characteristic: for decades he comprehensively developed a type of model until he moved to another. The departure from the Amati school occurred in a year, when Stradivari created the type of so -called elongated violin.

Only about the year, at the age of 56, Stradivari constructed his model. From this year and over the years, the so -called golden period lasted, when Stradivari created the best tools in concert qualities. In his instruments, Stradivarvari's instruments approached the natural timbre of the human voice more than all other masters. Stradevyvari tools were very popular.

He is attributed to the creation of the tools, of which it is preserved undoubtedly genuine. Adverse economic and political circumstances affected the cremion masters in the early XVIII century and were the beginning of a decline in art. Warneri Warneri Gvarneri is a family of Italian masters of bow instruments. The ancestor of the family, Andrea Guarneri - is a student of the famous N.

special fame and recognition were the instruments created by his grandson - Giuseppe Garneri -, nicknamed Del Jesa. Del Jezu's work tools have been preserved a few 10 altas and 50 violins; They are currently of exceptional value. The exact date and place of birth is not set. On one of his violins there is a stigma “, a creamy”, and this is the first testimony of the master in the city where he later lived and where he died on December 18 the same stigma confirms that Nicholo Amati studied with Nicholo Amati.

Almost the whole life of the master was devoted to the improvement of his art and the manufacture of magnificent tools that covered his name for the unfading glory. The evolution of Stradivarvyrevy shows the gradual liberation from the influence of the teacher and the desire to create a new type of violin, which is distinguished by timbre wealth and powerful sound.

I built small violins to Stradivari, but then moved to the manufacture of larger tools. A typical Stradivarian “elongated violin” has a mm in length 9.5 mm larger than the Amatievsky violin. Then the master reduced the length of the tool to, 5 mm, while making it somewhat wider and with more curved arches - this is how the model of unsurpassed symmetry and beauty was born.

The best cells of Stradivari also belong to the late period. Throughout his life, the master created more than a thousand violins, alts and cello; The stigma of Stradivari has come to our time: the Maltese cross and initials of A. There are a lot of fakes under Studivari, and only an experienced expert can confirm the authenticity of the tool.