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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1wards became famous in Germany; he was attached to the Court of Saxony, and opened a violin school at Dresden, where many good pupils were made.
3Another name we cannot pass over is that of Pietro Locatelli, born at Bergamo in 1693; he was only sixteen when Corelli died, so that he could not have had many years' training under him. His compositions display boldness and originality, and he has left us the Arte di nuova modulazione, a most curious work, which appears to have been studied by Paganini. Locatelli died in Holland in 1764. Little appears to be known of his wandering life.
5Lorenzo Somis, another excellent pupil of Corelli, has become noted by the pupils he, in his turn, has made, including such men as Lecler,* Pugnani (the professor of Viotti), and Giardini. Somis was Chapel-master to the King of Sardinia.
7Carbonelli, Vivaldi, and several others less
9* Jean Marie Lecler, a celebrated pupil of Somis, was born at Lyons in 1697, and assassinated (it is said from jealousy) in the streets of Paris in 1764. He is regarded as the founder of the French school of violin-playing. We shall refer to him again.
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