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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
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1enough to cause the company to cease talking during his performance. This circumstance so annoyed the great virtuoso that he stopped playing and stepped down from the platform, saying, in his calm, good-natured manner, that he was afraid the "noise of his music might interfere with the conversation."
3A man of a very different stamp was Giuseppe Tartini, born in 1692, a gentleman by birth and education, who at the early age of twenty-two, whilst still prosecuting his studies at the University of Padua, composed his immortal Sonata del Diavolo, now usually called Il Trillo del Diavolo. He was originally intended for the law, but circumstances led him to adopt music as a profession. As a youth he was extremely fond of music and fencing—few could match him with the foils. He began to study the violin seriously under Giulio di Terni, a clever musician, who, in after years, came and took some lessons from his celebrated pupil. An early marriage, contracted against the consent of his parents, caused the young man to fly and seek a livelihood far from the parental eyes. A relative, who was an abbot at the monastery of Assisi, befriended him, and he laboured in that secluded spot to perfect his violin-playing, taking part regularly in the religious music of the establishment. After reconciliation with his family he went to Venice, in order that he might hear the eccentric
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