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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1XXXIV.—ARCANGELO CORELLI.
3CORELLI was born at Fusignano near Imola, in February, 1653. In the latter part of the seventeenth century he aroused great sensation among all sorts and conditions of men in his native land by his beautiful performances, especially in churches, of his own splendid sonatas. Even before the century was at an end he was almost universally known as the "Prince of all artists"; "Orpheus of the Violin"; "The first of all violinists," etc. As a matter of fact he really was an epoch-making musician, and both by his power of mind and his great virtuosity (in the best sense of the term), he opened up new paths for the violinist which were quite undreamt of before. The histories of music describe him as "the freer of instrumental music from the bonds of the contrapuntists;" as "the founder of scholastic
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