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Scan 364
The violin and its music, 1881
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 330. See the scan on archive.org.
1particular, I stand to this hour amazed that God should give so great perfection to so young a person. There were at that time as excellent in their profession as any were thought to be in Europe, Paul Wheeler, Mr. Mell and others, till this prodigie appeared."
3Johann J. Walther was in the service of the Elector of Saxony at the period when Corelli was in Germany, and it is probable the Violinists were personally acquainted with each other. The titles of Walther's compositions* point to their having been curious, and quite opposed to those of his great Italian contemporary.
5The departure from Hesse Cassel of Henri Schütz (Sagittarius) for Venice, about the period of the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, marks the beginning of a new era in the history of German instrumental music. At Venice, Schütz became the pupil of Giovanni Gabrielli, a circumstance of much interest to us, Gabrielli having been the earliest Italian composer connected with the Violin, according to our present knowledge. After an absence of three years Schütz returned to his native country with a system of instrumentation so entirely new to Germany, that his contemporaries named him the father of German instrumental music. When it
7* "Serenata a un coro di Violini, organo tremolante, chitarrino piva, due trombe e timpani, lira tedesca, e arpa smorzata, per un Violino solo. Scherzi di Violino solo, con il basso continuo per l'organo o cembalo; accompagnabile anche con una Viola liuto."
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