Books › The violin and its music, 1885 › scan 244
Scan 244
The violin and its music, 1885
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 226. See the scan on archive.org.
1admitted is extremely beautiful, appears somewhat beyond the intention of the composer. The masterly manner in which Ferdinand David has transformed the original Basses of the old Violin composers into delightful Pianoforte parts is beyond all praise, but I cannot but think he has over-edited, in some instances, the solo parts, rendering it difficult to discover where the old master ended and the editor began. Chaucer, in the language of the nineteenth century, might be both readable and instructive, but it is open to doubt whether Master Geoffrey would either know or be pleased with himself in a modern verbal dress.
3We have now to mention another pupil of Lorenzo Somis—Gaetano Pugnani—who, besides distinguishing himself as a great executant, founded a school for Violinists at Turin. He was born in that city in the year 1727, according to the account furnished by Fétis. After visiting the chief continental cities, Pugnani came to England, and remained for a long period. It was in the year 1770 that he returned to Turin and became the leader of the orchestra at the chief theatre, and shortly afterwards opened the school which Viotti entered as one of its earliest scholars, and proved himself the greatest. Many of Pugnani's compositions are yet in manuscript. He died in 1803. His published works for the Violin consist of: Sonatas, Ops. 1, 3, 6, 11; Duetts, Ops. 2, 13; String Trios, three books; String Quartetts, Op. 7; six Sym-
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.