Chapter VI: Part IV: Violin Music

XI. EARLY VIOLIN MUSIC AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF VIOLIN TECHNIQUE 368

The origin of stringed instruments; ancestors of the
violin--Perfection of the violin and advance in
violin technique; use of the violin in the sixteenth
century; early violin compositions in the vocal style;
Florentino Maschera and Monteverdi--Beginnings of
violin music: Biagio Marini; Quagliati; Farina; Fontana
and Mont’Albano; Merula; Ucellino and Neri; Legrenzi;
Walther and his advance in technique, experiments in
tone painting--Giov. Battista Vitali; Tommaso Vitali
and Torelli; Bassani; Veracini and others--Biber and other
Germans; English and French composers for the violin; early
publications of text-books and collections.

XII. VIOLIN COMPOSERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 396

Corelli, Vivaldi, Albinoni--Their successors, Locatelli,
F. M. Veracini, and others; Tartini and his pupils;
pupils of Somis: Giardini and Pugnani--French violinists
and composers: Rébel, Francœur, Baptiste Anet, Senaillé
and Leclair; French contemporaries of Viotti: Pagin,
Lahoussaye, Gaviniès; Viotti--Violinists in Germany and
Austria during the eighteenth century: Pisendel, J. G.
Graun, Franz Benda; Leopold Mozart--The Mannheim school:
J. Stamitz, Cannabich and others; Dittersdorf, Wranitzky
and Schuppanzigh--Non-violinist composers: Handel, Bach,
Haydn, Mozart--Conclusion.

XIII. VIOLIN MUSIC IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 430

The perfection of the bow and of the classical
technique--The French school: Kreutzer, Rode, and
Baillot--Paganini: his predecessors, his life and fame,
his playing, and his compositions--Ludwig Spohr: his style
and his compositions; his pupils--Viennese violinists:
Franz Clement, Mayseder, Boehm, Ernst and others--The
Belgian school: De Bériot and Vieuxtemps--Other violinist
composers: Wieniawski, Molique, Joachim, Sarasate, Ole
Bull; music of the violinist-composers in general--Violin
music of the great masters.