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Francesco Geminiani
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Italian violin virtuoso and composer, Geminiani studied with Corelli and A. Scarlatti and followed their style and technique. He became a member of the Naples Opera orchestra in 1711. Tartini referred to the flighty and emotional composer as "il furibondo Geminiani". Geminiani toured England in 1714 as a soloist and won wide acclaim for his dazzling technique. He once agreed, conditionally, to a request that he perform on the violin if Handel would accompany him. From 1733 until his death Geminiani lived in Dublin and spent the intervening years working in Paris and London. 
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Most of Geminiani's compositions are concerti for violin. His greatest legacy is "The Art of Playing on the Violin" (London, 1751), published in English, and the first book of its kind (twenty-two years before Leopold Mozart's Violinschule). He also composed the ballet "La foresta Incantata".
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