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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1in violin-playing, that she not only rivalled all the other pupils of Tartini, but acquired a European reputation. Her musical studies commenced at the Conservatoire of the Mendicanti at Venice. She afterwards became a pupil of Tartini, and devoted herself exclusively to the violin. About the year 1780 she visited France and England, and published a considerable quantity of violin music. Tartini entered into correspondence with this lady, and wrote to her a celebrated letter on the study of the violin; this was translated and published at London by Dr. Burney in 1771. It is given entire in Dubourg's work on the violin.
3A contemporary of Tartini, who attained considerable eminence as a violinist, was Antonio Lolli, born at Bergamo in 1728, and who from 1762 to 1773 was concert-master to the Duke of Wurtemberg. He afterwards travelled to Russia and received a splendid violin-bow from the Empress Catherine II., bearing upon it the inscription, "Archet fait par ordre de Catherine II. pour l'incomparable Lolli." In the year 1785 Lolli came to England. A contemporary speaks of him thus: "The celebrated performer on the
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