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The violin and its music, 1881
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1Section VI.—The Violin in Italy.
3CHAPTER III.
5SIX years prior to the performance of the Allegorical Opera, at the Palace of the Queen of Sweden, at Rome, upon which occasion, as before mentioned, Corelli led the orchestra; Alessandro Scarlatti was superintending the representation of one of his earliest operas in the same palace, and appears to have remained in the service of the Queen as musical director and composer, until the year 1688, when he became master of the Royal Chapel at Naples. It will thus be seen that Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti, the foremost Italian musicians of their time, and to whom is distinctly traceable that development of instrumental music which gave to it a new and higher life, were often in each other's society. It is said that in the opera of "Laodicea e Berenice," played in 1701, Scarlatti composed an obbligato Violin accompaniment to a charming air allotted to the tenor voice, which he did specially for Corelli. It is clear that Scarlatti was resolved to develope the Violin in his field of work, as Corelli had done in his. He gave to the instru-
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