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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
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1Veracini, the capo pazzo, or madcap; a violinist whose performances produced so great an effect upon him that it was this said Veracini whom he saw in his dream, or nightmare, on awaking from which he composed his clever Sonata del Diavolo, a piece in which a series of double-shakes, and the satanic laugh with which it concludes, are so dear to lovers of descriptive music.
3This composition, strange to relate, actually helped him to the appointment of director of the orchestra in the Church of St. Anthony at Padua in 1721; and by the year 1728 he had founded a great violin school in that celebrated old city. Another of his compositions, Didone Abandonata (Sonata X.), is quite as descriptive.
5Before he died (February 1770) Tartini had perfected the art of bowing, had composed eighteen Concertos for five instruments, as well as several Trios and a number of Sonatas, and left a Tratto di Musica, or treatise on music, in which he discusses the curious acoustic phenomenon known as "the third sound," i.e., the production of a third note in harmony when only two notes are struck with the bow.
7Viotti combined the talents of Corelli and Tartini. Like the latter, he was a man of poetic and philosophic mind. His birth occurred at the little village of Fontaneto, in Piedmont, in 1755. How he took to violin-playing as a profession nobody seems to
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