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on the Violin, his variety upon a few notes & plaine ground with that wonderfull dexterity, as was admirable, & though a very young man, yet so perfect & skillful as there was nothing so crosse & perplext, which being by our
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to a musical family; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all musicians. Sources suggest an array of music teachers who may have taught him in his early years. According to the writings of
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of Lübeck (he had returned briefly to his home city, probably shortly after
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of the violin, and run them back insensibly," he wrote, "and all with alacrity and in very good tune, which nor any in
England saw the like before." Also in attendance was
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for three violins, require virtuosity and technical mastery. According to Wood, Baltzar's drinking habits contributed to his death. He was buried in the
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