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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1896
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1FAMOUS VIOLINISTS
3We must not, however, attach too great a significance to the term "school," since Paganini and Tartini were independent of any, and, like Shakespeare and Molière, belonged to no academy. Nevertheless, Paganini himself would probably never have played the violin at all, but have contented himself with his father's mandoline, had there been no such men as Corelli and Tartini to lay down the principles of broad style and good taste.
5It was in the month of February 1653 that a child was born at Fusignano, in the territory of Bologna, whose career was destined to exert an immense influence in the musical world, and particularly in the art of violin-playing. The name of this child was Archangelo Corelli. His compositions have come down to us as types of purity and freshness, and his tomb in the Pantheon at Rome, near to that of Raffaele, bears the inscription: Corelli princeps musicorum.
7Corelli's life, like that of most musicians, was one of numerous adventures and mishaps; nevertheless he has left a great name. To show how little affinity existed between Italian and German music even in those early days, it is related on excellent authority that Corelli once had to lead one of Handel's compositions, in which the Italian violinist gave to the opening movement a style of his own. Handel, who had studied the violin to some extent, lost his temper, as usual on such occasions, and so
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