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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1896
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1About the middle of the seventeenth century a musical ecclesiastic, Padre Castrovillari, of Padua, became eminent both as a violinist and composer. He left a pupil, named Bassani, who wrote several compositions for the church and the theatre, and who became the teacher of the celebrated Corelli.
3In 1769 Bassani published several sonatas, and was well known as a distinguished performer on the violin. His pupil Corelli, who had had some lessons previously from Matteo Simonelli in religious music, afterwards became famous, and instructed (among other men who have left names in the musical world) an eccentric writer for the violin named Locatelli, whose studies are thought to have helped Paganini in perfecting his extraordinary talent. He certainly appears to have discovered some curious "harmonic" and other effects, which are not of very great importance, and of which his sober classical teacher had evidently no notion.
5At the period during which the celebrated violin-makers of the Tyrol and Cremona were supplying violinists and bass-players with instruments which for combined sweetness and power are now classed among the wonders of the world, three eminent names tower above the horizon of distinguished virtuosi—Corelli, Tartini, and Viotti—to whose splendid methods are due almost all that is achieved at the present day in the art of violin-playing, and whose united careers extend over a space of about 150 years.
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