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The story of the violin, 1904
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1Violin Art in Italy
3singers and twenty-four instrumentalists. Also, as a solo instrument the violin was employed in connection with the Mass ceremonies, and this gave eminent soloists not only an opportunity of displaying their talents under most favourable conditions and nobly stimulated their efforts, but many of them found honourable, congenial, and fairly lucrative positions. No wonder, then, new centres, as I said, sprang up, and old ones added to their laurels. We find in Venice Antonio Vivaldi (1660-1743), priest, violinist, and famous composer; and in Florence, besides Giuseppe Valentini and Martinello Bitti, Francesco Maria Veracini (1685-1750), one of the most eminent of the eighteenth century Italian violinists, who also played an important part in the life of the man to whom we come next—Giuseppe Tartini, the founder of the Paduan school of violin-playing (Fig. 30).
5There is no artist in the earlier stages of violin art who has so firmly and deeply carved his name in the
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