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the history of the violin, 1864
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1left hand with a hatchet, saying, "Cursed be the talent that will not place me beyond the treatment of a slave."
3The reputation of Geminiani, born at Lucca about 1680, though some give an earlier date, a pupil of Lunati (Il Gobbo), is well established, not only for his skill as a player, but for his arrangement of Corelli's music, and his own concertos; he came over to England in 1714, and died in Dublin in 1762, in the house of his friend and pupil, Matthew Dubourg. Dubourg, who was born in 1703, was a fine player; and when a child played solos at Britton's concerts. It is of him the story is told of playing a cadence once before Handel, when he seemed rather undecided towards the close, but having safely finished, Handel exclaimed, "You are welcome home, Monsieur Dubourg." Mrs. Delaney speaks in high terms of him: after hearing the music in honour of St. Cecilia at the Crown Tavern, she writes in a letter dated the 11th of Nov. 1727, "Dubourg was the first fiddle, and every body says he exceeds all the Italians, even his master Geminiani." Carbonelli, a pupil of Corelli, who came over to England in 1720, was leader of the opera band for a time, but is probably best known as the founder of the celebrated wine establishment bearing his name; he died in 1772.
5Felix Giardini, born at Turin, 1716, was a pupil of Somis, a fine player, Corelli's best pupil, and one of the great masters of his time. He came to England about 1749, and remained 35 years, leading at the opera during part of the time. He was celebrated as a solo player, and particularly excelled in an adagio, and was remarkable also for the volume of tone he produced. He had amassed a fortune, but unfortunately lost it, as many others have done, by undertaking the management of the opera, in which he was joined by Mingotti. He afterwards went
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