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Trio Settecento: Veracini: Complete Sonate Accademiche
by C. Michael Bailey
Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768) was an Italian composer and violinist who lived during a period when there were several notable fiddle-slingers, like: Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709), Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704), Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762), and Pietro Locatelli (1695-1762). Not to mention three other fiddlers that bear mentioning: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and George Frideric Handel (1685-1759); but that seems like overkill. Veracini had plenty of highfalutin peers with whom he was known ...
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