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The violin and its music, 1881
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1Violone, Clavycimbel oder Teorbe zu Musiciren," and other works of a similar character in 1658:
2Conrad Steneken, of Bremen, an amateur, published, in 1662, a collection of short pieces for two Violins, Tenor, and Bass.
3About the year 1657, when the Emperor Leopold was driving the Turks from Moravia, Gottfried Finger came into the world at Olmütz in that country. He came to England in 1685, and became King James II.'s Chapel-master, better known to us as Mr. Godfrey Finger, the composer of twelve Sonatae "pro diversis Instrumentis, Opus Primum, 1688;" Six Sonatas, three for Violin and three for Flute, 1690; Sonatas, Ayres, etc., for Violins, in conjunction with John Banister 1691; and other compositions.
4After spending about seventeen years here, Mr. Finger quitted our shores, displeased in having been awarded the fourth prize for a composition in which Weldon, Eccles, and Purcell preceded him. We next hear of Finger in the service of Queen Sophie Charlotte at Berlin, our First George's sister.
5Though—
6"The surly drums beat terrible afar,
7With all the dreadful music of the war,"
8the Emperor Leopold's love of Music's harmony was in no way cooled. Early in his reign he interested himself with the art, and, it is said, set to music his own poetry. He retained the services of Draghi,
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