Scan 44
Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1XIII.—ANTONIO BARTOLOMEO BRUNI.
3THROUGH Corelli, who is considered to have been the author of the artistic school of violin playing in Italy, a large number of talented pupils have been trained, who, again on their part founded other schools. Thus Somis founded the Piedmontese school, and his most important pupil was Pugnani, who was the teacher of the subject of this sketch.
5Bruni was born on 2nd February, 1759, at Coni, in Piedmont. After having studied under Pugnani, and a certain Spezziani (whose very name is entirely ignored by all lexicographers with whom I am acquainted), he went in 1781 to Paris where he settled. At first he was violinist in the band of the Comédie Italienne, but in 1789
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