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A popular history of music, musical instruments, ballet, and opera, from St. Ambrose to Mozart, 1888
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1he put away his violin, fearing, as he said, to interrupt conversation. His works are well known (or, at least, used to be) to all violinists. They consist of four sets of sonatas for two violins, violoncello and figured bass for the harpsichord, which formed a model for much similar music by his successors,
3Fig. 86.—Arcangelo Corelli.
5a set of sonatas for violin and bass, which even now are a capital study for the violinist, and a set of concertos for two violins and violoncello, with two ripieni violins, viola and bass. Of these, No. 8, written for the night of the Nativity, is especially charming. A school of violin-players was the result
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