Arcangelo Corelli was an Italian composer and also a violinist in the baroque era of music, he exercised a vast influence on some of his peers and on the composers to come after him. Although there is not much on his early life. Corelli was born in Fusignano, Italy, in 1653. This was before J.S. Bach or Georg Frideric Handel came around, he studied in bologna, in a very prestigious musical center, then he established himself in Rome around the 1670’s. His teacher Giovanni Battista Bassani, also a very skilled violinist himself, taught Corelli to play violin. Matteo Simonelli, a well renounced singer of the pope’s chapel, showed Corelli how to compose music. Corelli gained his first major success when he was 19 in Paris, this is how he got …show more content…
6 that he made a great effort for and put most of his effort and time in. even though he didn’t allow his pieces to be published while he was alive, they still became very famous and iconic for the time. The dates on his compositions were not very accurate because Corelli spent most of his life writing the pieces and then rewriting the pieces, this started in his twenties. Corelli's accomplishments as a teacher were unremarkable. Even just the style of the level of execution given to us by Corelli and preserved by his pupils, such as Francesco Geminiani, Antonio Vivaldi, Pietro Antonio Locatelli, and many others like them, they all had a very importance role in the development of violin playing. But Vivaldi, who later became Corelli’s successor as a composer of the great Concerti Grossi, and also he greatly influenced the music of J.S. Bach. It has been stated that the paths of all of the great and famous violinist-composers of 18th-century in Italy, and that thanks to Arcangelo Corelli who was their "iconic point of reference." Even though Corelli did not use his instrument to its fullest potential, you can confirm this when you look at his scores, most of the notes never exceed passed the D note. Some say that Corelli refused to play anything that exceeded Ain altissimo, and he even took offense when played the note. But nevertheless his music for the instrument made a chapter in music