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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1emulation in Tartini, who was already at that time acknowledged to be a very clever musician. However that may be, he had never heard any great player before he went to Venice, and had not conceived it possible that such effect and expression could be obtained by the varied management of the bow. It has been said that a friendship sprang up between these two eminent artistes and another clever man named Alexandro Marcello, and that they devoted much time to the study of the principles of violin-playing, particularly to style, and to the varied kinds of bowing. It appears that this friendship only ceased when Veracini's mind gave way; after which Tartini withdrew to Ancona to devote himself to uninterrupted study; and it was in complete solitude that he applied himself to discover the fundamental principles of the bow, which principles have since served as the basis of every violin school in the world. He held some small appointment in the orchestra at Ancona, and the remainder of his time was taken up with hard study, not only of the violin as a solo instrument, but with the principles of acoustics, and with mathematics.
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