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The violin and its music, 1881
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1fested as to have earned for him the title of father of this species of composition. Willaert was born at Bruges in the year 1490. At the age of twenty-eight he followed the example of many of his countrymen, and removed to Rome, where he possibly hoped to find a larger field for the exercise of his abilities than his native city afforded him; but at that period Rome must have sheltered quite an army of musicians, the chief part of which was mainly dependent on the patronage of Leo X. and his Cardinals, and it is possible that he discovered the Church and its princes already sufficiently weighted with claimants to favour without casting in his lot with them, and thus resolved to quit the Papal city, and make that of the Venetian Republic the stage for his efforts in Music's cause. In Venice he worked and died, amid the din of its vast commerce, for then the Venetian capital was not only the first commercial city in Italy but of Europe. Its wealth, its churches, and its marble palaces formed a theme of admiration throughout the civilised world. In Venice at the height of its prosperity he found its citizens as eager to encourage and practise music as they were to aid and cherish other arts—furnishing another instance of art following close upon the heels of successful commerce.
3Doni, in his Dialogue on Music, published at Venice in 1544, supplies us with a description of the chamber music of Willaert's time. In the Dialogue, compositions by most of the seventeen composers
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