A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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song succeeded this, in C minor, which Corelli led off in C major. " Ri-comminciamo" (let us begin again) said Scarlatti, good naturedly. Still Corelli persisted in the major key, till Scarlatti was obliged to call out to him and set him right. So mortified was poor Corelli at this disgrace, and the deplorable figure he imagined he had made at Naples, that he stole back to Rome in silence. Soon after this a hautboy-player, whose name Geminiani could not recollect, acquired such applause at Rome, that Corelli, disgusted, would never again play in public. All these mortifications, joined to the success of Valentini, whose concertos and performances, though infinitely inferior to those of Corelli, were become fashionable, threw him into such a state of melancholy and chagrin, as was thought to have hastened his death. As Dr. Burney observes, this account of Corelli's journey to Naples throws much light upon the comparative state of music at Naples and at Rome in Corelli's time, and exhibits a curious contrast between the fiery genius of the Neapolitans, and the meek, timid, and gentle character of Corelli, so analogous to the style of his music. In 1712, his concertos were beautifully engraved at Amsterdam by Estienne Roger and Michael Charles le Cene, and dedicated to John William, Prince Pala-
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