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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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31653—1713.
5In the month of February, 1653, there was born at Fusignano, in the territory of Bologna, a man whose career was destined to have a most prodigious influence upon the art of violin-playing, and whose compositions have come down to us as types of purity and freshness. This man was Archangelo Corelli. His great reputation and the number of pupils he made connect him more or less with all the great violinists who have followed, even down to the present day.
7In his youthful days the Church had more hold upon music and musicians than the theatre or the concert-room, and Corelli's first master
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