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The violin and its music, 1881
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1the indifferent, and therefore of a lingering reputation; but such, I believe, is their true position. Notwithstanding that they figure in new editions of the works of the old masters, there does not appear to be any eagerness shown to perform them, which is a sure sign of their failure to satisfy, beside the compositions of Veracini and Tartini. It would seem to be the anomalous place they hold in the music of the instrument that renders them mainly unpopular, coming as they do midway between the old and the new. The Violin compositions of Geminiani consist of solos, sonatas, and concertos, an instruction book, and a treatise on good taste in the art of music.
3Another and greater pupil of Corelli was Pietro Locatelli, born at Bergamo about the year 1693. From Rome he went to Amsterdam, where he seems to have passed his life, dying there in the year 1764. His abilities were greatly valued by those around him; but our Burney evidently failed to appreciate them, since he tells us he was "a voluminous composer of music that excites more surprise than pleasure." This opinion was penned long before Locatelli's peculiarly original style of composition had become a power in the art of Violin playing. Louis Spohr had not made the ear familiar with intricate chromatic passages; the genius of Paganini had not been dedicated to the development of the extraordinary, the embryo of which lay in the studies and sonatas of his famous countryman. In
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