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The violin and its music, 1885
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1birth, ultimately completing his studies with Tartini, at Padua. He entered the service of the Duke of Wurtemburg at Stuttgart; his patron was an excellent musician, and had in his orchestra three of the foremost Violinists in Europe, Ferrari, Nardini, and Lolli, with Jomelli to conduct. Nardini afterwards returned to Leghorn, which he again left to occupy the post of Solo-Violinist to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, where he died in 1793. Leopold Mozart says, in a letter written in 1793, the year of Nardini's death: "I have heard a Violin player, named Nardini, who, in beauty, equality, and purity of tone, and in a certain singing taste, is not to be surpassed: he, however, plays no difficulties."* The compositions of Nardini consist, according to Fétis, of Six Concertos, Op. 1; Six Sonatas, Violin and Bass, Op. 2; Six Trios for Flute; Six Violin Solos, Op. 5; Six Quartetts, published at Florence; and Six Duos for two Violins. In David's "Die Hohe Schule des Violinspiels" we have a rare specimen of Nardini's powers as a composer for his instrument. The opening movement is an adagio in D major, full of pathos. This is followed by an allegro in the same key, of great brilliancy, and of a character much in advance of the Violin music of the period. The larghetto movement here made use of, belongs to a distinct sonata. The editor has, perhaps, given to it a meaning, which, though it must be
3* "Mozart's Life," p. 24.
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