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The violin and its music, 1885
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 284. See the scan on archive.org.
1Giambatista Somis, the pupil of Corelli, played at the Concert Spirituel, and met with great success.
3Le Clair, born at Lyons, in 1697, and who contributed greatly to the development of the study of his instrument in France, had some years previous to the appearance of Somis at the Concert Spirituel received lessons from that master when in Turin. Le Clair returned to Paris in 1728. In 1731 he received an appointment in the Court band: this position he ultimately gave up, and appears to have henceforth centred all his attention upon composition and giving lessons. Although Le Clair studied under an Italian master, he did not abandon the characteristics belonging to the early French school of Violin playing, or the style of music Lulli had made familiar to French ears; in short, Le Clair proved himself again and again a composer richly endowed with originality and sentiment. The roll of famous French Violinists is a long and glorious one, and the name of Le Clair should head it in letters of gold.
5His works for the Violin are Op. 1, First Book of Sonatas, with Bass. Op. 2, Second Book of Sonatas, with Bass. Op. 3, Six Sonatas for two Violins. Op. 4, Six Sonatas for two Violins and Bass. Op. 5, Third Book of Sonatas for Violin, with Bass. Op. 6, Easy pieces for two Violins and Bass. Op. 7, Concertos for three Violins, Tenor, Bass, Organ, and Violoncello. Op. 8, Second
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