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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1At Rome he had a great and powerful patron in the person of Cardinal Ottoboni. This Cardinal was evidently fond of music, for he had a concert at his residence every Monday evening, and Corelli had the direction of it. When the latter had resided at Rome several years, he published some of the music which he used to perform himself as solos in the various concerts at which he appeared. It was issued as "Sonate à Violini, etc., Op. 5."
3It has been said by a distinguished writer, that Corelli, by this and his other publications, laid the basis of the art of playing the violin; but it is difficult to arrive at a true beginning in anything. Corelli, no doubt, profited largely by those who had gone before him, and it would be an injustice to his predecessors not to acknowledge it here.
5Some of our readers will remember that it was at the house of the above-mentioned Cardinal that the immortal Handel met Corelli. A curious story is told about this meeting. One of Handel's compositions was to be performed on that particular Monday, and it appears that the Italian violinist was giving to the opening movement a style of his own, when Handel, who had formerly
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