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1numerous successful tours of Europe and England. Taught the violin at Brussels and Antwerp Conservatories. Compositions include a number of solos for the violin.
3CONRADI, ARTHUR, American violinist and teacher, b. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 5, 1884. Studied at Peabody Conservatory and under Issay Barmas in Berlin and Leopold Auer in Petrograd. Made many successful tours of Germany and the United States. Has taught the violin both in this country and abroad. Mr. Conradi has also contributed many articles to the music magazines of the United States.
5CORBETT, WILLIAM, English violinist and composer, b. about 1675. Appeared as leader of the Haymarket Opera Orchestra in 1705. Compositions include sonatas for violins, flutes and oboes as well as orchestral concerts. Traveled abroad for years, making a collection of music and Italian violins, which upon his death were sold at auction, as the authorities of Gresham College refused to accept them as legatees under his will.
7CORDIER, JACQUES, French violinist and rebec player who lived in the reign of Louis XIII, and who later came to England. He became a favorite of Charles I who heard him play many times.
9CORELLI, ARCANGELO, Italian violinist, composer and teacher, b. Fusignano, Feb. 12, 1653. Studied under Bassani; outside of this fact little is known of his earlier career. Traveled in Germany, and also appeared in Paris, and finally settled in Rome under the protection of his friend, Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, in whose palace he lived up to the time of his death, Jan. 10, 1713. Compositions include numerous sonatas, suites and concertos, all of which are characterized by technical perfection for the instrument, as well as by musicianly earnest feeling. As a performer on the violin he was a serious, dignified artist, and as a composer he accomplished more than any one of his predecessors in aiding the violin to assume gradually the position which it assuredly now occupies as the "King of instruments."
11COURVOISIER, KARL, German violinist and composer, b. in Basel, Nov. 12, 1846. Studied under David, Rontgen and Joachim. Member of several famous European orchestras. Made numerous successful tours until 1876. Taught the violin and singing for a number of years in Liverpool, England. Has written a violin concerto, violin method, special exercises and a well-known essay "The Technic of Violin Playing," translated into English by Henry E. Krehbiel.
13CRAMER, WILLIAM, German violinist and composer, b. at Mannheim in 1743. Studied under Stamitz and Cannabich. Member of the Mannheim Orchestra at the age of sixteen. Came to London in 1772 where he soon attained a high position as conductor, particularly at the Handel Festivals in 1784-87. Compositions include three concertos. As a performer on the violin he was said to have combined the skill of Lolli with the expressional power of Franz Benda. D. London, Oct. 5, 1799.
15CULBERTSON, SASHA, American violinist, b. United States, Dec. 29, 1893. Studied under Suchorukov and Sevcik. Appeared as soloist in Vienna at the age of nine. Made numerous successful tours of Germany and England. As a performer on the violin he is accredited with a technique almost without rival.
17CUTTER, BENJAMIN, American violinist and teacher, b. Woburn, Mass., Sept. 6, 1857. Studied under Eichberg and Singer. Upon his return to the United States he became a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Taught the violin at the New England Conservatory of Music, although later he became exclusively professor of harmony and musical analysis. As a teacher of the violin he was intelligent and painstaking, and those who studied under him received a thorough grounding in the art. He also edited the Kreutzer Exercises in a masterly and highly illuminating manner. D. Boston, May 10, 1910.
19CZERWONKY, RICHARD, German violinist and composer, b. Birnbaum, May 23, 1886. Studied under Florian Zajic at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin, where he held a scholarship for three years, and at the Royal High School in Berlin under Joachim. Appeared as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Made numerous successful tours through Europe. Came to the United States in 1907 as assistant concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, followed by an engagement as concertmaster with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Now teacher of the violin at the Bush Conservatory, Chicago, in connection with which he has organized an orchestra composed of students, which
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