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The story of the violin, 1904
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 166. See the scan on archive.org.
1CHAPTER II.
3VIOLIN ART IN ITALY.
5Thus, along many a circuitous path—through barren stretches, sandy wastes, past lovely fields and meadows, villages, and towns—went fiddle-playing through the centuries, until it reached the foot-hills where Corelli stood and showed the way to greater and sublimer heights, mounting into the clear sky of the last ideal. The violin had been invented, and soon after, from its native land, some early birds of passage, minstrel-like again, carried its message into Germany and France.
7Only a few names of violinists belonging to the sixteenth century, contemporaries of Duiffoprugcar, Andrew Amati, Gaspar da Salo, etc., have come down to us. Gerber¹ mentions one Albert as among the most celebrated violinists² in Italy, whom François I. took with him to France in the first half of the sixteenth century; and Alessandro Romano, a monk with the designation "della Viola." In the second half of the century, according to Branzoli, we find Giuliano Tiburtino and Luigi Lasagnino both hailing from Florence and famous in their day; and particularly Baltazerini, called "Le Beau Joyeux" (born 1550), the best violinist of his time, who, in 1577, was
9¹ Ton Künst-lexicon. ² Probably violinists.
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