1826, court organist at Freising.

[105] Notice, in each case, the falling interval in the second and
fourth bar.

[106] Verstohlen geht der Mond auf, blau, blau Bluemelein, etc.

[107] The long arpeggio leading up to the first note is omitted.

[108] In the British Museum copy the "XII. Sonate da Chiesa, Opera
Quinta" of Bassani are bound up with "Sonate a Tre" by Giacomo
Sherard. In plain English, the latter composer was a certain James
Sherard, an apothecary by profession. The Bassani sonatas here
mentioned were published at Amsterdam. Hawkins tells us that "an
ordinary judge, not knowing that they were the work of another, might
mistake them for compositions of Corelli." The first violin book has
the following entry:--"Mr. Sherard was an apothecary in Crutched
Friars about the year 1735, performed well on the violin, was very
intimate with Handel and other Masters." This copy, which possibly
belonged to Sherard, contains also the following, written apparently
by the person into whose hands the book passed:--"Wm. Salter, surgeon
and apothecary, Whitechapel High Street." The various sonatas, too,
are marked in pencil--some as _good_; others, _very good_. The date,
1789, is also given--the year, probably, in which the volumes became
the property of W. Salter.

[109] These sonatas were afterwards published at Amsterdam as
Corelli's, being marked as his Opera Settima. On the title-page was
written "Si crede che Siano State Composte di Arcangelo Corelli avanti
le sue altre Opere."

[110] See chapter on Haydn.

[111] She was surely the daughter of Francois Hippolite Barthelemon
(son of a Frenchman and of an Irish lady), who was on intimate terms
with Haydn, to whom the sonata above mentioned is dedicated.

[112] Samuel Wesley (1766-1837), nephew of the Rev. John Wesley, was a
gifted musician, and is specially remembered for his enthusiastic
admiration of John Sebastian Bach. The letters which he wrote to
Benjamin Jacob on the subject of his favourite author were published
by his daughter in 1875. He also, in conjunction with C.F. Horn,
published an edition of Bach's "Wohltemperirtes Clavier."

[113] He is described on the title-page as "formerly Composer to
several Cathedral Churches in France." Buee's name is neither in Fetis
nor the Pougin Supplement.

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