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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1896
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1more than twenty-one, and Tartini about fifty-seven years of age.
3Another reason why I am certain that was the solo attempted on this occasion is that Tartini would never have taken the liberty to correct a fellow-artiste, however young, except in the performance of a piece of his own composition; he simply wished to show Pugnani how he, the composer, intended the passage to be played. If I may be allowed to go a step further, I may safely affirm that it was at the bar number six (the sixth bar from the commencement) of the sonata, which requires to be rendered somewhat softly to prepare the crescendo which follows, that the young violinist was stopped by his illustrious contemporary.
5Many anecdotes have been foisted upon Pugnani, some of which bear evidence of being the creation of rivals, and are not worth repeating. Others, on the contrary, tend to enlighten us upon the character of the man. It has been stated that, when playing, he was so completely absorbed in the music that he has been known at a public concert to walk about the platform during the performance of a favourite cadenza, as if he had been at home in his own room.
7His compositions are numerous, and for the most part excellent; though now they are very scarce and difficult to procure. He wrote no less than
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