A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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the preceding, studied later under Cannabich. In 1767 he entered the orchestra at Mannheim, and three years afterwards went to Paris, where his playing was much admired. He then entered the service of the Duke de Noailles, and remained with that prince until 1785. He then returned to Germany, and was heard with success at Frankfort, Berlin, and Dresden. In 1787 he entered the chapel of Prince Hohenlohe-Schilling, but left there the same year and went to Prague, thence to Cassel, after which he journeyed to St. Petersburg and remained there -several years. His compositions include symphonies, quartets for strings, trios for do., duos for two violins, concertos for violin.
'Strunck, Nicolaus Adam, born at Zell in 1640, died at Leipzig in 1700. One of the most renowned fiddlers of the seventeenth century. When Nicolaus was twelve years of age, his father, who was court organist at Zell, removed to Brunswick and soon after procured for his son the post of organist at the church of St. Magnus in that town. Here his partiality for the violin was evinced, and he was sent to Lubeck to take lessons on that instrument of a player there named Schnittelbach, under whom he progressed so rapidly that, at the age of twenty, he
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Biographical Dictionary Fiddlers Cannabich Mannheim Paris Duke Noailles Germany Frankfort Berlin Dresden Prince Hohenlohe-Schilling Prague Cassel Strunck Nicolaus Adam Zell Leipzig Nicolaus Zell Brunswick Lubeck Schnittelbach Schilling Petersburg His One When
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