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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Heart of Music
3of Italy as his majesty considered would shine most acceptably in the Louvre. The Cardinal of Ferrara was chief emissary. François was destined to influence the life of the Tyrolese master as he influenced the lives of so many great men of his time, as he influenced Da Vinci, and Jean Goujeau, and Rossi, and Primatice, and Benvenuto Cellini, and Andrea del Sarto, and hosts of others. This rarely artistic monarch, who was to make the Louvre more than ever a thing of joy to beauty lovers, to create a new era in Gobelin tapestries, and to achieve other eminences in aestheticism, chose to summon to France the gifted "Duiffopruggar," lutes, viols, and all. The Cardinal of Ferrara brought the violin maker to Paris, together with a glorious company of which Leonardo da Vinci was one, Benvenuto Cellini another, and other great names not lacking.
5The simple, gracious lutanist was bewildered and overawed by the gorgeousness of the French court, but he went to work in the room allotted him to make the instruments which the king desired. François wished several of Tieffenbrücker's most perfect viols for his chapel, and the Tyrolese, glowing with excitement and appreciation of the rare honour done him, toiled early
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