Johann Jakob WALTHER / Hortulus Chelicus Uni Violino Duabus Tribus et Quatuor
"With Biber, Walther was the most important and daring of the late 17th-century violinist-composers in Germany and Austria who cultivated virtuoso techniques involving polyphonic writing, multiple stopping and the use of high positions: Fétis called him 'the Paganini of his century'. Whereas in using multiple stopping Biber was interested chiefly in scordatura, Walther emphatically rejected it, preferring instead the imitation of other musical instruments and of birds and animals. In doing so he was following in the footsteps of such composers as Biagio Marini, Carlo Farina (who had also worked at the Dresden court and whose Capriccio stravagante (1627) is a notable example of such pictorial music), Marco Uccellini, J.H. Schmelzer and even Biber himself. ... The chief technical advances o.
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