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The violin and its music, 1885
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1It was at this period, when Haydn was in London, monopolising the attention of the musical world, that Giardini is said to have evinced a particular spite against the great German master; when urged to visit Haydn, he remarked, within hearing of the composer, "I don't want to see the German hog;" Haydn writing afterwards in his diary that "Giardini played like a pig." In turning to the translation of the diary extracts from Greisinger's "Life of Haydn," we find simply, "On the 21st of May, 1791, Giardini had a concert at Ranelagh," the simplicity of which harmonises with the character of Haydn, better than the comparison of the playing of an eminent brother artist to a pig. In 1793, he left St. Petersburg, and later visited Moscow, dying there in his eightieth year.
3Bartolozzi, the famous engraver, executed a portrait of Giardini, a copy of which is seen on the title-page of his Twelve Solos, dedicated to the Duke of Brunswick. His Violin music consists of: Twelve Quartetts, Op. 20 and 29; Six Quintetts, Op. 11; Violin Solos, Op. 1, 7, 8, 16, 19; Six Violin Duetts; Six Sonatas for Piano and Violin, Op. 3; Twelve Violin Concertos, Op. 4, 5, 15; Trios for Stringed Instruments, Op. 6, 14, 20.
5It is Tartini's greatest scholar, Pietro Nardini, whom we must now notice. Nardini was born at the village of Fabiana, in Tuscany, in 1722, and received his earliest instructions in music at Leghorn, where his parents went to reside shortly after his
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