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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1understand that he did not appear to make much progress with his instrument till that period; but for a man of his active mind and learned education, it is impossible to believe that he ever gave himself much rest. It is a curious fact, that at the age of fifty-two, Tartini made a marked alteration in his style of performance, and, instead of displaying his abilities in difficult passages, preferred to yield to grace and expression. His method of executing an adagio has been represented by his contemporaries as inimitable, and he appears to have conferred this gift upon one of his favourite pupils, Nardini, who was the finest adagio-player in Italy, and probably in the whole world.
3Pietro Nardini was born at Leghorn in 1725; he soon became Tartini's most distinguished pupil, and in after years an old friend and companion. In 1763 he was attached to the chapel of the Duke of Wurtemberg, but in the course of a few years he returned to Leghorn, where he composed almost all his works. In 1769 he went to Padua, and renewed his friendship with Tartini, whom he attended in his last illness with filial attachment. He afterwards entered the service of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and, in 1783, drew forth the
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