1600. =G. Bassani= (Venice), about 1600. Violinist and teacher of Corelli. He composed chamber music suites which were highly esteemed. 1621. =Biagio and Carlo Marini= (Brescia), about 1621. Two chamber music composers, well known in their time. 1625. =G. Legrenzi= (Venice), 1625-90. Eminent composer, who wrote various chamber music works for strings. Lotti was his pupil. 1625. =Carlo Farino= (Mantua), about 1625. Composer of chamber music, and one who considerably developed the form. (See Wasielewski’s _The Violin and its Masters_.) 1628. =Tarquinio Merula= (Cremona), about 1628. One of the early composers of sonatas for the violin, and of other forms of chamber music. 1636. =John Banister= (London), 1630-79. Violinist and director of chamber music concerts. 1630. =G.B. Fontana= (Brescia), —— d. 1630. Composer who did much for the development of the chamber music of his time. 1632. =Matthew Locke= (Exeter), 1632-77. Celebrated English musician; chiefly remembered by his “Macbeth” music, but he also wrote chamber music for viols and violins. 1641. =Johann Vierdank= (Stralsund), about 1641. Organist at Stralsund. He wrote a number of works for two violins and bass. 1644. =G.B. Vitali= (Cremona), about 1644. Important violist, and composer of chamber music during the period leading up to the time of Corelli. 1644. =Antonio Stradivari= (Cremona), 1644-1737. The great Cremona violin maker. 1649. =Johann P. Krieger= (Nuremberg), 1649-1725. German chamber music composer. Twenty-four of his sonatas for two violins and bass have survived. 1650. =Guarneri= (Cremona), 1650-1745. Name of the famous family of violin makers. 1650. =N. Hasse= (Rostock), about 1650. He wrote dances (courantes, etc.) for strings and theorbo, a bass instrument of the lute order. 1650. =Nicolaus Kempis= (Florence), about 1650. He resided in Brussels in the middle of the seventeenth century. His chamber music was regarded as among the best written during his time. 1653. =Corelli= (Fusignano), 1653-1713. Eminent violinist and composer of important chamber music. 1655. =J.H. Schmelzer= (Vienna), about 1655. Chamber musician at the court of Vienna, who published various sonatas for strings and wind. 1655. =Steffani= (Castelfranco), 1655-1730. Venetian composer of high rank, who lived chiefly in Germany. His vocal chamber duets are his more important works, but he also wrote chamber music for strings. 1655. =J. Christoph Denner= (Nuremberg), 1655-1707. A musical instrument maker, to whom is attributed (about the year 1700) the invention of the clarinet.