Francesco Geminiani
Italian Violinist and composer
Francesco Xaverio Geminiani was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist. BBC Radio 3 once described him as "now largely forgotten, but in his time considered almost a musical god, deemed to be the equal of Handel and Corelli." Wikipedia
Born: December 5, 1687, Lucca, Italy
Died: September 17, 1762 (age 74 years), Dublin, Ireland
Books: A Treatise Of Good Taste In The Art Of Musick, The Art of Playing on the Violin: Containing All the Rules Necessary to a Perfection on that Instrument, with Great Variety of Compositions, which Will Also be Very Useful to Those who Study the Violoncello, Harpsichord & C, Opera IX, Twelve Instructive Duets: For Two Violins, and more