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The Violin and its Music, 1881
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1opponent of Handel, as Chapel-master to the Duke of Modena. Another composer for the Violin, who held the same office at Modena, was Marco Uccellini, to whom is given the credit of having developed the powers of the bow in a manner before unknown. Giovanni Nicolai, an Italian musician, connected with the court of the Duke of Wurtemburg, published at Augsburg, in 1675, twenty-four caprices for four Violins with thorough-bass, besides other Violin works. Bassani, born at Padua about 1657, was the conductor of the Cathedral music at Bologna for some time, and also at Ferrara. His compositions consist chiefly of operatic and sacred music. Among those for the Violin are "Sonate da Camera, cioè balletti, correnti, gighe e sarabande, a Violino a beneplacito, opera prima, Bologne dodici Sonata a due Violini e Basso op. 5." Giuseppe Torelli, born at Verona, introduced the Concerto da Camera, the form of composition in which Corelli and Handel were so successful. He also published chamber caprices for Violin, Tenor and Lute, and his brother published a year after Torelli's death the famous "Concerti grossi con una pastorale per il Santissimo natale." Anthony Veracini, the uncle of Francesco Veracini, composed a set of sonatas for two Violins, Bass, Organ, or Lute, and others of a similar kind, published about 1662; with the mention of which we are brought to the end of our list of patriarchal Violin music.
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