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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1Contents.
3SECTION XIV.—SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF THE VIOLIN.
5Earliest mention of the Violin family …………………………………………….. 256
6Bombet, in "Letters on Haydn," on the invention of Symphony …………………………………………….. 257
7Form of early Instruments exemplified in Paul Veronese's "Cena di San Giorgio" …………………………………………….. 257
8Baltazarina, earliest known player on the Violin …………………………………………….. 258
9Introduction of the Concert Orchestra in Italy …………………………………………….. 258
10"L'Orfeo de Montferde" …………………………………………….. 259
11Mersennus, and "the King's twenty-four Violins" …………………………………………….. 259
12Introduction of the Sonata …………………………………………….. 260
13Jean Baptiste Lully; the Story of the Stewpans …………………………………………….. 261
14Progress of the Violin in England; Rogers; Jenkins; Charles II. and his twenty-four Violins …………………………………………….. 262
15Francesco Geminiani …………………………………………….. 263
16Progress of the Art in Italy: Giuseppe Tartini; Locatelli; Lolly; Giardini; Boccherini; Viotti and his School; Campagnoli; Paganini; Sivori …………………………………………….. 264—269
17Notices of French Performers: Lecler; Pierre Gaviniès; Rode; Baillot and Kreutzer; Lafont; Habeneck; Tolbecque, Cavillon, Alard, and Sainton; M. Costa …………………………………………….. 271
18The Belgian School: Charles de Bériot; Henri Vieuxtemps …………………………………………….. 272
19Polish Artists …………………………………………….. 272
20Return to English Schools: Lord Chesterfield on "Department and the Violin" …………………………………………….. 273
21Michael Christian Festing, Thomas Britton the "small-coal man," and the Philharmonic: formation of the Royal Society of Musicians …………………………………………….. 274
22Saloman and Haydn at the Philharmonic …………………………………………….. 276
23Nicholas Mori, Dando, Henry Blagrove, and the Musical Union; Mr. Chappell and the Monday Popular Concerts …………………………………………….. 277
24Henry Cooper, John Carrodus, M. Sainton, Hill, Signor Piatti, Herr Molique, the Brothers Holmes …………………………………………….. 278
25The German School of Violinists: Graun and Benda …………………………………………….. 279
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