[60] Some pieces composed for the viola d’amore by Ariosti, consisting
of Cantabile, Vivace, Adagio, and Minuet, have been arranged by Alfred
Piatti for the violoncello, and brought out lately in London.
[61] Concerning the diverse vicissitudes of Bononcini’s and Ariosti’s
lives, which can find no particular mention here, see “Musical
Lexicons,” extant.
[62] Born in 1649, at Trapani, in Sicily; died on October 24, 1725,
at Naples. In Grove’s Dictionary, 1659 is given as the date of his
birth--other authorities as above.--(_Tr._)
[63] Gerber gives Venice as his birthplace; but in the _Weekly News_ of
the year 1770, Padua is mentioned, which is probably correct.
[64] In Jahn’s biography of Mozart is found the notice that Ferrari
had been appointed to the Court of the Archbishop of Salzburg; at what
period is not mentioned.
[65] Fétis says in his “Biographie universelle des Musiciens” (Vol.
II., 365): “The first edition of Corrette’s music tutor appeared in
1761.” On the title page, however, is plainly printed MDCCXL1. Fétis has
inadvertently put the number L before the X instead of after.
[66] The first edition of this appeared under the title: “Versuch einer
Gründlichen Violinschule.”
[67] These cello pieces by Bach existed in all probability during this
master’s directorship at Köthen (1717-1723). Spitta: “Joh. Seb. Bach,”
I., 678 and 707.
[68] Born towards the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the
eighteenth century, in Milan; died after 1770, in which year Burney
found him still living.
[69] Born, in 1758, in Rome; died, 1832, in Paris. The two sonatas by
San Martini and Porta have already been mentioned, p. 49.
[70] P. 29.
[71] “That which renders Boccherini’s compositions unlike all others of
the kind is that he commonly assigns the principal part to the first
violoncello.”--(_Tr._)