Like Vivaldi, the Bergamasque Locatelli brought together eminent skills as both an instrumentalist and an erudite composer. As a virtuoso, he dazzled Europe starting in 1723. Certainly, his Concerti grossi owe much to Corelli's model; however, in many respects, the student constantly surpasses the master. Extreme positions, virtuosic arpeggios, triple stops, complex trills, large interval leaps in very fast tempos: only Nicolò Paganini would dare passages of comparable difficulty, but a century later!
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