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Scan 52
FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY, 1909
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1violins, which he stated were the best in the world. These instruments he named St. Peter and St. Paul.
3The name of Giuseppe Tartini will ever live as that of one of the greatest performers on, and composers for, the violin. Born at Pirano, in 1692, his career may be said to have commenced with the eighteenth century. He was not only one of the greatest violinists of all time, and an eminent composer, but he was a scientific writer on musical physics, and was the first to discover the fact that, in playing double stops, their accuracy can be determined by the production of a third sound. He also wrote a little work on the execution and employment of the various kinds of shakes, mordents, cadenzas, etc., according to the usage of the classical Italian school.
5Tartini's father, who was an elected Nobile of Parenzo, being a pious Church benefactor, intended his son for the Church,
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