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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
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1one of his boys was destined to become a celebrated chef d'orchestre, it was discovered that "Battista" possessed an extraordinary talent for the violin. This first attracted the attention of several of the palace officials, the Comte de Nogent among others; and it led to Lulli being placed under proper tuition, and finally made a court musician.
3At the age of nineteen he played for the first time before the King, and so delighted him that he was soon engaged to form a band of musicians, which was called Les Petits Violons du Roi (mostly formed of young men), to distinguish them from the twenty-four violinists who for some time previously had formed the band known as Les Violons de la Chambre. The latter had attracted the notice of our king, Charles II., and he determined to establish at the English court a similar band of violinists.
5Now, at this extremely interesting and exciting period of our history, there were not many great violinists in England. It would have been exceedingly difficult, or quite impossible, in the days of Charles II., to have got together in London anything like the orchestra at Covent Garden Theatre, for instance. Nevertheless, there were two Englishmen, father and son, named Bannister, who had made for themselves in these early days considerable reputations as violin players.
7John Bannister, the father, was an excellent musician, and taught his son, John the younger,
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