A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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tremely happy might I hear your performance on this latter instrument, on which I am informed you excel. Corelli very politely condescended to this request of a stranger; he played a solo: Strunck accompanied him on the harpsichord, and afterwards played a toccata with which Corelli was so much taken, that he laid down his instrument to admire him. When Strunck had done at the harpsichord, he took up the violin and began to touch it in a very careless manner, upon which Corelli remarked that he had a good bow-hand, and wanted nothing but practice to become a master of the instrument. At this instant Strunck put the violin out of tune, and applying it to its place, played on with such dexterity, attempering the dissonances occasioned by the mistuning of the instrument with such amazing skill and dexterity, that Corelli cried out in broken German, " I am called arcangelo, a name that, in the language of my country, signifies archangel ; but let me tell you, that you, sir, are an arch-devil."
•Tartini, Guiseppe, born at Pirano, in the Province of Istria, April 8th (or 12th) 1692, died at Padua, February 26th,* 1770. Tartini is the most prominent virtuoso and teacher in the whole history
* Fetis says the 16th.
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