This article investigates the role played by the physician and violin maker Franz / Franjo / Francesco Kresnik in the discourse on violin making in the first half of the twentieth century. It also considers the effect of his presence at the Bicentenario stradivariano, the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari in Cremona in 1937, during the em>Ventennio—the two decades of Cremona: Pivotal Center for Music. Cremona, at the turn of the sixteenth into the seventeenth century, had a thriving culture of music. The composer Claudio Monteverdi (baptized in 1567, died in 1643) was born in Cremona and trained at the cathedral with the director of music, Marcantonio Ingegneri. Monteverdi published two full books of music Born in Cremona in 1698, he came from a family of violin makers. His career was quite short as he died at the early age of 46. As a maker, he was known to be very experimental with his instruments. He tried various archings, f-holes and thicknesses in order to assess how they affected the sound. Violin making has a rich history dating back to the 16th century and Cremona, in Italy, has been the birthplace of many famous violin makers over the centuries. From Andrea Amati, the first luthier recorded in 1565, to Antonio Stradivari and the Guarneri family, Cremonese violin makers are revered for their craftsmanship and the tone of their Cremona and Brescia were in hot competition, until warfare in the late 1620s spread plague around the Po Valley. In Brescia, the plague killed every violin maker, while in Cremona it killed all but one: Nicolo Amati. And of this was borne the ultimate triumph of the Cremona violin as the world standard. Or so one would believe. Stradivari learned his craft from Italian violin maker Nicolo Amati as an apprentice and began making some under his own name in 1666. He initially copied what he had learned, but by 1684, Stradivari started altering many commonplace techniques of the time period, including the type of varnish he applied. From Cremona, Italy, the historic birthplace of violin-making, let’s start talking about our Amorim Fine Violins’ maker: Luiz Amorim. Luiz was born in Curitiba, Brazil. He dedicated his career looking forward to creating instruments with powerful sounds and doing his best to make natural and identical copies of master makers. Dictionary. Crossword Answers: family of italian violinmakers who flourished at cremona. RANK. ANSWER. CLUE. AMATI. Family of Italian violin makers who flourished at Cremona in the 16th and 17th Centuries (5) C CLAMP. Violinmaker's device. XT41GoL.