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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators. With numerous wood engravings from photographs of the works of Stradiuarius, Guarnerius, Amati, and others, 1875
6 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 31. See the scan on archive.org.
1a great demand for bow instruments of a high class.*
3The bare mention of a few of the names of composers then existing will be sufficient to bring to the mind of the reader well versed in musical matters the compositions to which they owe their fame. In the sixteenth century, Palestrina, Guami, and Zarlino were engaged in writing church music, in which stringed instruments took their share; in the seventeenth, lived Stradella, Lotti, Bononcini, Lully, and Corelli. In the eighteenth century, the period when the art of Violin making was at its zenith, the list is indeed a glorious one. At this point we reach the constellation of Scarlatti, Geminiani, Vivaldi, Locatelli, Boccherini, Tartini, Piccini, Viotti, Nardini among the Italians; while in France it is the epoch of Lecler and Gaviniès, composers of Violin music of the highest excellence. Surrounded by these men of rare genius, who lived but to disseminate a taste for the king of instruments, the makers of Violins must certainly have enjoyed considerable patronage, and, doubtless, the artistes of tried ability readily obtained highly remunerative prices for their instruments, and were encouraged in their march towards perfection both in design and workmanship. Beside the many writers for the
5* Montagne, whose travels brought him to Verona in 1580, has recorded that there were Violins as well as Organs there to accompany the mass in the great church.
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