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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1tini's library was full of the most learned works, and that he appears to have devoted much of his time to reading and arduous scientific study. Indeed, had he been a philosopher by profession (for in practice he certainly was), many scientific discoveries would doubtless have resulted from his labours, and when we reflect upon the extremely learned and so-called "dry" books that existed on the shelves of his study, it is wonderful that he should have left anything like music to the world.
3At Ancona, nevertheless, he attained such eminence as a performer, and as a musician, that it led to his appointment in 1721 to the directorship of the orchestra in the Church of St. Anthony, at Padua. Fétis tells us that he passed the remaining forty-nine years of his life here, "in peace and comfort, solely occupied with labours connected with the art he loved." His great fame as a violinist brought him repeated offers from the greater European cities, even from London and Paris, but he firmly declined them all, and never quitted his native country. Thus it is that those only who visited Italy in his day, could have had an opportunity of hearing Tartini
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