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The violin and its music, 1881
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1Pisa, where he died in 1750. There are two sets of sonatas by Veracini, Op. 1 and Op. 2. The first set was engraved by Roger, of Amsterdam, and re-published by Walsh. The second set was published in Dresden.
3The achievements of Giuseppe Tartini in relation to the Violin and its music next claims our attention, regarding him as a follower in the footsteps of Francesco Veracini. The position of Tartini in the annals of the king of instruments is indeed a proud one; not only was he a remarkable Violinist and composer for his instrument, but an accomplished and highly cultured man, possessed of that modesty which is rarely absent where exceptional genius reigns. Tartini was born at Pirano on the twelfth of April, 1692. His parents wishing him to follow a monastic life, his early years were passed in a monastery. In his eighteenth year, however, he appears to have been occupied in the study of Italian jurisprudence; but, like his great German contemporary, George Frederick Handel, he probably discovered the science of the law to be one unresolvable discord, and therefore unsuited to a musically harmonious temperament. We scarcely require the musical historian to tell us this, since it is written in the "suites" of the German, and the sonatas of the Italian.
5That Tartini had found his true vocation before the year 1721, is seen from his appointment as solo Violinist and conductor to the church of St. Anthony
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