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VIOTTI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. (1755-1824). Influential Italian violinist, composer and opera director. CS. (“J[ean B[aptiste] Viotti”). 1p. 64mo. N.p., N.d. A contemporary of Ludwig von Beethoven, Joseph Haydn and his friend, Luigi Cherubini, Viotti held several court appointments before creating a sensation in Paris. However, after the French Revolution forced him into exile, he relocated to London, where he performed widely and, among other things, became manager of Italian Opera at the King’s Theatre. France’s war with England again displaced him for a time, but he became a British citizen in 1811 and helped establish the Philharmonic Society of London. Considered the founding father of the 19th-century French violin school, Viotti is considered to have influenced Niccolo Paganini and Rodolphe Kreutzer. His violin, built by Antonio Stradivari in 1709, is known as the Viotti Stradivarius. With a small tear at the base of the signature, and matted with a portrait engraving. In very good condition. Uncommon. [specialstring]