Date of the first appearance of the instrument--The Violin of Leonardo
da Vinci--Paolo Veronese's picture, "The Marriage at Cana" (with
engraving)--Baltazarini, the earliest known player--The "Concert
Orchestra" and the Duke of Ferrara--First use of stringed instruments
in the Opera; the "Orfeo" of Claudio Monteverde--Introduction of the
Sonata; Dr. Burney thereon--Corelli, and the "Balletti da
Camera"--Dibdin on Corelli's Concertos--Jean Baptiste Lulli, and the
Legend of the Stewpans; his influence on early French Violin
music--Progress of the Violin in England; Dr. Rogers and John
Jenkins--Samuel Pepys on the emoluments of the Royal Band--John
Bannister and the earliest English public concerts--Henry Purcell; his
Sonatas, and his royal patron, Charles II.--Thomas Britton, the
"musical small-coal man," and his concerts in Clerkenwell--John Henry
and Thomas Eccles, and itinerant musicians--Francesco Geminiani; his
Sonatas and musical works--Progress of the instrument in Italy;
Tartini and his compositions; Locatelli, Lolli, and Giardini;
Boccherini and his Quintets; Viotti, his School of Violin-playing, and
his concerts; Campagnoli, and his "Studies on the Seven Positions of
the Violin," and other works; Paganini, and his imitators; Sivori, Ole
Bull, Leclair, Gavines, and other leaders in the art--Violin-playing
in France and Belgium; M. Rode, M. Alard, M. Sainton, De Beriot and
Vieuxtemps--Polish Violinists of note--Lord Chesterfield's
instructions to his son relative to Fiddling--Michael Festing and
Thomas Britton; origin of "The Philharmonic Society," and of the
"Royal Society of Musicians"--Handel legacy to the Royal
Society--Early musical proclivities of the Earl of Mornington--Salomon
and the Philharmonic; negociations with Haydn--Influence of Salomon on
the development of musical taste in England--The Cramers--Nicholas
Mori and others--Dando--Henry Blagrove, and his "Concerti da
Camera"--Mr. Chappell and his "Monday Popular Concerts"--Henry C.
Cooper, and the "Quartett Association"--M. Sainton, Hill, Piatti; John
Carrodus, Herr Molique, and the Brothers Holmes--Progress of the
Violin in Germany: Graun and Benda; John Sebastian Bach as Violinist
and composer; Herr Joachim--Handel, influence of his compositions on
the progress of the Violin--Haydn, and his Symphonies and Quartetts; A
lady's ideal thereof--Mozart, and his "Method" for the Violin; his
early attachment to the instrument--Schubert, Beethoven, Mendelssohn,
Fesca, and their influence--Louis Spohr and his works--Bernard
Molique--Joseph Mayseder--Kalliwoda--Herr Ernst, Joachim and Strauss,
with Herr Wilhelmj, and their concerts . . . . . . . . . . . . 375-409