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GEM1NIANI, FRANCESCO (c. 168o-1762)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 573 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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