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The Violin and its Music, 1881
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1posers whose writings were introduced here in the reign of Charles II.
3Tomasso Antonio Vitali, born at Bergamo about 1650, was the famous Violinist, and must not be confounded with Giovanni. It was Tomasso who wrote the chaconne which Joachim first played at the Monday Popular Concerts in 1870.
5It is Gregorio Allegri, the pupil of Nanini, who next claims our notice. Nanini was the pupil of Goudimel, and fellow-student with Palestrina, mention of which serves to heighten our interest in Allegri, the composer of the earliest string quartett. This composition, Dr. Burney remarks, "does not manifest any great progress which the Violin tribe had made towards perfection. The celebrity and importance which this family has acquired, since it may be said to have got up in the world and made so much noise everywhere, may excite curiosity in its admirers about its manner of going on and passing its time." On this account alone the quartett is valuable. Mr. Hullah, in his published lectures,* has given the Andante in modern notation.
7Giuseppe Colombi, of Modena, published Sonatas for two Violins and a Bassetto in 1676, besides other compositions in which the Violin is concerned. This Bassetto I am inclined to regard as the small Violoncello, which most of the great Italian makers made together with large ones. It was Colombi who succeeded Bononcini, the father of Bononcini the
9* "Transition period of Music."
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