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Matteis, Nicola the Elder
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Detailed biography with anecdotal quotes, partial discography, and link to period information from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
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HOASM: Nicola Matteis The earliest surviving reference to Nicola Matteis is in John Evelyn’s diary for November 19, 1674. The diarist came home full of enthusiasm from a private music meeting in London and wrote I heard that stupendious Violin Signor Nicholao (with...Brief biography noting style and substance of his works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa.../learning/grove.html?record=5855
Biographical sketch from the Oxford Companion to music noting also theoretical contributions.
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Nicola Matteis Italian violinist who came to England about 1672 and astonished all connoisseurs of violin playing by his amazing technique (mentioned in Evelyn's Diary and North's Memoires of Musick. he published some fine violin compositions in London, as also songs and...