A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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in White Fryers, this present Monday will be musick performed by excellent masters, beginning precisely at 4 of the clock in the afternoon and every afternoon for the future precisely at the same hour."
Banister's compositions comprise the music to Davenant's Circe, performed in 1676, several songs, and pieces for the violin.
* Banister, John, son of the preceding, born 1673, died 1735, was an eminent performer, he was one of King William's band, and played first fiddle at Drury Lane, when operas were first performed there. He wrote several " grounds " with divisions inserted in Playford's " Division Violin."
•Baptiste, a celebrated French fiddler at Paris, at the commencement of last century. He went to Rome to learn of Corelli the method of playing his sonatas, which, it is said, no one at that time in Paris could execute, but this is difficult to believe.
' Bargheer, Karl Louis, born at Bucke-burg, Dec. 31, 1831, a performer still living. From 1848 to 1850, he received instructions from Spohr at Cassel. He next placed himself under David at Leipzig, and subsequently studied with Joachim. With such a brilliant trio of masters, together with hisnaturalaptitude, Bargheer proved himself a solo player of
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Dictionary Fiddlers White Fryers Monday Davenant Circe John King William Drury Lane Playford Division Violin Baptiste French Paris Rome Corelli Paris Karl Louis Bucke-burg Dec Spohr Cassel David Leipzig Joachim Bargheer
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