[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.)
[72] Fétis mentions him as a mediocre composer. He was born at Perpignan in 1691, and died in Paris in 1765.
[73] The sketch of Schetky contained in Forster’s “History of the Violin,” deviates substantially from Gerber’s information, which I have followed. Forster says that this artist studied jurisprudence at Jena and, under Frederick the Great, followed as a volunteer the forces commanded by Blucher in the seven years’ war. Then he also mentions his being a pupil of Philip Em. Bach. Whether this statement have any real foundation, and to what extent, must remain undetermined.
[74] Gerber gives 1745 as the year of Jäger’s birth, and Lauterbach in Upper Hesse as the place.