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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1896
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1that might lead to better things than are usually in store for a blacksmith. But there are blacksmiths and blacksmiths, harmonious or otherwise, some of whom have left names behind them; and it is a calling by no means to be despised. Probably this particular blacksmith was held in estimation by the aristocracy of his neighbourhood, and no doubt he shod the horses of the good Prince Pozzo; for it was this gentleman who placed the young Viotti under the care of the talented Pugnani for instruction at Turin, where he remained for many years.
3Gaetano Pugnani was one of the most brilliant stars that arose from the great Piedmontese Violin School founded by Somis, a pupil of Corelli, and chapel-master to the King of Sardinia. He was born at Turin in the year 1728, and under the excellent tuition of Somis he became a very accomplished violinist and composer, exerting no inconsiderable influence on the art of music in Northern Italy by the grandeur of his style of playing, and the improvements he introduced into the form of the Concerto.
5He had already achieved much success as a solo-player at the Court of Sardinia, before he went forth on his travels. When he arrived at Paris he had to compete with some of the greatest violinists of the period, among whom was the German virtuoso J. Stamitz, and the noted French artistes
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