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The violin and its music, 1881
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 221. See the scan on archive.org.
1one of Valentini's sonatas for his instrument, and has played it publicly on several occasions. Among his works we find Trios for two Violins and Violoncello, called sinfonies and fantasias, concertos and sonatas.
3Alberti of Bologna, born in 1685, pupil of Manzolini, wrote and published concertos; also Twelve Sonatas for Violin with an accompaniment for a Bass; and, lastly, Twelve Symphonies for String Quartett with Organ.
5We have now to refer to another pupil of Corelli, Pietro Castrucci, born at Rome about the year 1690. In 1715 Castrucci appears to have entered the service of that great music patron the Earl of Burlington, whose concerts were often directed by Handel, and attended by Pope, Gay, and Arbuthnot, and other celebrities. It was Gay who wrote, in passing the Earl's house in Piccadilly,
7"There Handel strikes the strings, the melting strain
8Transports the soul, and thrills through every vein;
9There oft I enter."
11And it was Pope, who, after listening to Handel's exquisite harpsichord playing, declared he had given him no pleasure, that his ears were of that untoward make and reprobate cast to receive his music with as much indifference as a common ballad. But let us leave the poet without an ear for music, and return to the musician. Castrucci was long thought to be the original of Hogarth's
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