A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
School, after which he proceeded to Paris, entered the Conservatoire there, and became a pupil of Habeneck. In 1833 he returned to Liege and was appointed professor at the Conservatoire. In 1839 he entered upon a concert tour, visiting the principal towns in Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Russia, returning to his native town in 1842. Another tour was undertaken in the succeeding year, at the termination of which he went to Paris. At the age of thirty his eyesight became defective, and shortly afterwards he went totally blind. Compositions: " La Melancholie," pastoral for violin and orchestra, Op. 1; Concertino, idem; Morceau de concert, idem; Grande Polonaise, idem ; Six grandes etudes, Op. 2.
'Pugnani, Gaetaeno, born at Turin, in 1727, (or 1728), died there in 1803. One of the most important violinists of his time, received his first instruction of G. B. Somis, one of the best pupils of Corelli, and later studied under the celebrated Tartini. In 1754, Pugnani went to Paris, and performed at the Concerts Spirituels. After a short stay in France, Pugnani visited various other towns on the continent, and then proceeded to London, where he remained some years, and for a time led the band at the Italian Opera. During his stay in England he composed some of his principal violin
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