CORELLI, ARCANGELO 0653-1713), Italian violin player and composer, holds an honoured place in musical history in both capacities. Of his life little is known except that he travelled widely about Europe and was everywhere held in the highest esteem. The style of execution introduced by Corelli and preserved by his pupils, such as Geminiani, Locatelli, and many others, has been of vital importance for the development of violin-playing, even though he employed only a limited portion of the instru ment's compass, as may be seen by his writings, wherein the parts for the violin never proceed above D on the first string, the highest note in the third position. It is even said that he refused to play, as impossible, a passage which extended to A in altissimo in the overture to Handel's Trionfo del Tempo, and took serious offence when the composer played the note in evidence of its practicability. His compositions for the instrument mark an epoch in the history of chamber music. Nor was his influence confined to his own country; even Sebastian Bach was not insensible to it. Corelli's numerous compositions are distinguished by a beautiful flow of melody and by a masterly treatment of the accompanying parts, which he is justly said to have liberated from the strict rules of counterpoint.