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The violin and its music, 1881
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 331. See the scan on archive.org.
1is remembered that he was conversant with the musical tactics of such men as Gabrielli, Caccini, and above all Monteverde, it is easy to understand how capable he was to engraft a new school of music on the old German stem.
3Though the Violin, in the form we now have it, was probably used in Germany at the end of the fifteenth century, and certainly a few years after its close,* it was not until after the return from Italy of Schütz, that the instrument appears to have made way.
5Johann Schopp, or Schoope, a native of Hamburg, where he was living in 1642, figures as one of the earliest German Violinists and composers for his instrument. In 1658, Matthias Kelz published little Sonatas, Ballets, Allemandes, Galliards, etc., and also, in 1669, music for Violin and Viol da Gamba.
7Chapel-master Johann P. Krieger, born at Nuremberg, in 1649, published Twelve Sonatas for two Violins, Tenor, and Bass, in 1687, and others for the same instruments in 1693. It is well to note that Kerl, Kelz, and Krieger studied in Italy, and that the latter was personally acquainted with the most eminent Italian musicians of his time.
9Nicolaus Hasse, organist of Rostock, published about 1650, "Deliciae Musicæ Allemanden, Couranten und Sarabanden, auf 2 roder Drei Violinen,
11* Prætorius, in his "Theatrum Instrumentorum, etc., 1620," gives a drawing of a Violin.
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