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the history of the violin, 1864
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1of Tartini, is stated to have been the first who introduced the harmonics, and passages in octaves. Locatelli, born in 1693, a pupil of Corelli, had more caprice of hand and fancy than any of his time, and is said to have made use of some of the effects afterwards reproduced by Paganini. Guignon, the last "roi des violons," who taught the Dauphin, the father of Louis XV, was also a distinguished performer in this age. Pugnani, born in 1727, another pupil of Tartini, and who was teacher of Viotti, was an absent and eccentric man: once, when playing a cadence before a large audience, he quite forgot himself, and walked about in the middle of the room till he had finished it, quite unconscious that he was not alone. On another occasion, being somewhat at a loss in a cadence, he said to a friend near him, "Pray that I may get safely back." Olivieri, a pupil of his, born at Turin in 1757, was a fine performer, but obliged to leave the theatre there in consequence of the following sforzando passage. He was in the habit of attending the concerts of a gentleman attached to the Court, but arriving one day rather late, the courtier abused him so that at length Olivieri, who was tuning his violin, lost his temper, and broke his instrument on the head of his astonished patron. Veracini, a Florentine, born about 1685, was a fine player, but excessively vain. A trick was once played on him by Pisendel, the leader of the orchestra at Dresden, for the purpose of mortifying him. He taught an inferior player in the chapel a concerto for the instrument till he became perfect in it; he then showed it to Veracini, who played it, but was immediately surpassed in it by the subordinate player. He was so vexed that it is said he threw himself out of window three days afterwards, but fortunately escaped with only a broken leg. On his recovery he
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