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The violin and its music, 1881
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1remembering these things the criticism of Burney is better understood.
3It is in the works of Locatelli we find instances of raising the pitch of the first string; but this innovation is traceable to another Violinist named Pritsk, the composer of three sonatas, in which the first string is raised.* This practice was very properly discountenanced by Pugnani and Viotti, but adopted by Lolli and Paganini. The first work of Locatelli's was published at Amsterdam in 1721, consisting of Twelve Concertos in the style of those of Corelli. Op. 3 forms the "L'Arte del Violino," comprising Concertos and Caprices for two Violins, Tenor, and Violoncello. The next work consists of Six Concertos, followed shortly after by the Six Sonatas for two Violins and a Bass. Op. 6 forms the Twelve Sonatas for Violin alone. Op. 7, Six Concertos. Op. 9, L'Arte di Nuova Modulazione, known to Violinists as Caprices or Studies, the twenty-third of which is the famous "Le Labyrinth de l'Harmonie."
5Giuseppe Valentini, a native of Florence, born about 1690, was a Violinist of considerable renown, and a composer of much stringed instrument music: which Dr. Burney tells us has been "long since consigned to oblivion, without any loss to the public or injustice to the author." The greatest Violoncellist of the present age—Signor Piatti—is evidently not of the same opinion, since he recently adapted
7* Lavoix fils, "Histoire de l'Instrumentation," p. 50.
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