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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1play. Fortunately for the musical art, he established a Violin School at Padua, in 1728, and made many very excellent pupils who afterwards became known throughout Europe. Of these the most remarkable will be mentioned further on. He established a systematic method of study for the violin, which became so much the vogue, that considerable numbers of young men resorted to Padua from different countries in order to benefit by his instruction.
3Tartini's compositions comprise several Sonatas and Trios, and eighteen Concertos for five instruments. His slow movements are remarkably expressive, and his music shows not only a great knowledge of the violin, but also of the laws, or science, of harmony, in which he was a great adept. His bowing is large, fine, and expressive; and some of his Sonatas, even now, are performed in the concert-room, and rarely fail to meet with due appreciation. Schott has published two editions of the well-known Sonata del Diavolo.
5He left, in published pieces and manuscripts, no less than one hundred and fifty different works.
7The well-known Sonata termed the Trillo del
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