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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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2Lecler, Giardini, Pugnani.
31697—1798.
5We know very little about the private or public life of the celebrated Lorenzo Somis, to whom we have alluded before—one of the greatest masters of the violin—except that he was a pupil of Corelli, that he was Chapel-master to the King of Sardinia, that he published at Rome, in 1722, various sonatas or trios, and that he made, among many others, three most remarkable pupils, Lecler, Giardini, and Pugnani.
7Lecler (Jean Marie) was born at Lyons in 1697, and first learnt music from his father, who was a musician by profession. Young Lecler was educated as a dancer, and used the violin as a dancing-master. While a youth he
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