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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators. : With several wood engravings from photographs of the works of Stradiuarius, Guarnerius, Amati, and others, 1880
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1part allotted to his own instrument, the Violoncello, often bristles with difficulties, and hence it is that these compositions are so seldom heard. Boccherini was the first composer that wrote quintetts with two Violoncello parts.
3We now reach a stage in the history of the progress of the Violin, the importance of which cannot be over-estimated; I refer to the influence which the compositions of Giovanni Battista Viotti exerted upon the cultivation of our instrument. With the famous Viotti sprang up a school of Violin playing as marked in style as that introduced by Corelli. Viotti was a pupil of Pugnani, and owed his success to the rare teaching of that master. Pugnani possessed an imagination of no ordinary kind, and Viotti, having imbibed much of his instructor's vein, has made the most of it in his compositions. The sensation that Viotti created in Paris was great. His varied style, his rich tone, and elegance in playing, were far beyond anything that the Parisian public had previously experienced. With Viotti was ushered in a new era in solo playing. His concertos exhibit the capabilities of the instrument in elegantly constructed passages, such as none but a master of the Violin could pen. He wrote upwards of 20 Concertos. Those in A minor, in G, in D, and in E minor being the favourites, and, to this day, highly esteemed by Violinists of every school. His duos and trios are pleasing and effective, and, though long since superseded by works of greater erudition, they form a landmark in the history of the progress of the instrument.
5Campagnoli, born in 1751, was a composer of rare
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