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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1903
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1Pagin and Gaviniès. Nevertheless, Pugnani met with a very cordial reception at the Concerts Spirituels, where he appeared several times; and he afterwards visited many European cities, with similar successful results. He stayed for a considerable time in London, where he composed a good deal of violin music. In 1770 he was in Italy again, when Dr. Burney, the author of a "History of Music," met him at Turin, and in that city he continued the management of the Violin Academy founded by Somis.
3Then it was that the boy Viotti was placed under his charge. Among his other pupils we should mention Bruni, Oliveri, Diana, Borra, Molino, Traversa, Borghi, and some others; all distinguished men in their day, whose lives, had they been handed down to us in detail, would be found surrounded, in most cases, by the halo of romance which is characteristic of artistic life, and which even the direst misery is unable to eclipse.
5In his younger days Pugnani, already an accomplished violinist, experienced a great desire to see and hear Tartini, and he left Paris and proceeded to Padua for that purpose.
7Tartini received him kindly, and evinced no little curiosity to hear him play. Pugnani took up a violin and commenced a "well-known" solo, but he had not played many bars before Tartini sud-
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