Ercole Gaibara ( – 1690) was an Italian

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composer, music teacher, and violinist.

Biography

Ercole Gaibara was active in

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during the first half of the 17th century. There is very little information about his life except that he was a very renowned violinist, earning the nickname "del Violino" by his students.''Le violon: Les violonistes et la musique de violon du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle''
Arthur Pougin He succeeded

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as the violinist of the

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. The musicologist Marc Pincherle considers him the founder of the ''École Bolonaise de violon'' (Bolognese School of Violin) where he taught

Arcangelo Corelli Arcangelo Corelli (, also , ; ; 17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713) was an List of Italian composers, Italian composer and violinist of the middle Baroque music, Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of Sonata a ...

Giuseppe Torelli Giuseppe Torelli (22 April 1658 Verona – 8 February 1709) was an Italian violinist, teacher and composer of the middle Baroque era. Brother of the painter Felice Torelli, he is most remembered for contributing to the development of the concer ...

,, and Leonardo Brugnoli. He may have also taught

Alessandro Stradella Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella (Bologna, 3 July 1643 – Genoa, 25 February 1682) was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period. He enjoyed a dazzling career as a freelance composer, writing on commission, and collaborating with ...

References

Bibliography

* ''Bolognese Instrumental Music, 1660-1710'', Gregory Richard Barnett, Ashgate Publishing, 2008 17th-century Italian composers Italian Baroque composers {{Italy-composer-stub