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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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1From Bach to Handel is an easy step in our discourse. They were born within a year of each other, and were possessed of minds of similar calibre, though differently exercised. It would not, perhaps, be over-strained to call them respectively the Nelson and Wellington of music. It is curious, too, that like those heroes of war, these harbingers of peace, it has been said, met but once, an event which Dr. Burney mentions as having occurred at Salzburg, where, on their going together to the Cathedral, they found it so full that they could scarcely get to the organ-loft; and when one of them opened the organ it was not possible for more persons to crawl into the church. Those, however, who could not gain admission into the interior of the building procured ladders and placed them at the windows in order to gratify their ears.
3The compositions of Handel materially advanced the Violin. His Overtures, Trios, Sonatas, and Concertos, were all received with the utmost attention, and led on to works by later composers, which would probably never have existed but for Handel's example. Stamitz, who introduced the modern form of Overture, was a Violinist, and also played on the Violoncello and Tenor.
5We now reach the time when the Symphony was perfected by Haydn, who, following the steps of Bach, brought this branch of the art to a degree of perfection hitherto unknown, and ultimately formed a model scarcely equalled. The influence of this composer on the progress of the Violin cannot be over-estimated. The quartetts of Haydn are too well known to need more than mention here. The Quartetts of Giardini
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