Contact / Map > Cremona, Italy
To find Carlo's violins in Italy:
Via Bertesi No 4
26100 Cremona
Cremona has always been considered as a city which gave birth to the
greatest violin-makers of any time.
The importance of these exceptional masters is confirmed nowadays as
in the past because the greatest violinists play instruments made by
Stradivari or Guarneri del Gesù.
The violin appears in the first half of XVI century and Andrea Amati
was the first of the Cremonensis violin-makers who gained importance
in the manufacture of the bow instruments.
This theory is upheld by the year of Andrea Amati’s birth, around
1505, and re-evaluates the importance ascribed to the city of Brescia
as the birth-place of the violin with Gasparo Bortolotti da Salò,
who was born in 1540. Moreover, the group of instruments commissioned
to Andrea Amati by Carlo IX of France, shortly after the first half of
XVI century, demonstrates that the art of the Cremonensis violin-maker
was known beyond the Italian borders when Gasparo da Salò was
only twenty.