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GEM1NIANI, FRANCESCO (c. 168o-1762)

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GEM1NIANI, See also:FRANCESCO (c. 168o-1762) , See also:Italian violinist, was See also:born at See also:Lucca about 1680. He received lessons in See also:music from Alessandro See also:Scarlatti, and studied the See also:violin under Lunati (Gobbo) and afterwards under See also:Corelli. In 1714 he arrived in See also:London, where he was taken under the See also:special See also:protection of the See also:earl of See also:Essex, and made a living by teaching and See also:writing music. In 1715 he played his violin concertos with See also:Handel at the See also:English See also:court. After visiting See also:Paris and residing there for some See also:time, he returned to See also:England in 1755. In 1761 he went to See also:Dublin, where a servant robbed him of a musical See also:manuscript on which he had bestowed much time and labour. His vexation at this loss is said to have hastened his See also:death on the 17th of See also:September 1762. He appears to have been a first-See also:rate violinist, but most of his compositions are dry and deficient in See also:melody. His See also:Art of Playing the Violin is a See also:good See also:work of its See also:kind, but his Guida ,armonica is an inferior See also:production. He published a number of solos for the violin, three sets of violin concertos, twelve violin trios, The Art of See also:Accompaniment on the See also:Harpsichord, See also:Organ, &c., Lessons for the Harpsichord and some other See also:works.

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