Fritz Kreisler and the composer of 24 Caprices, NiccolÃ² Paganini, played this instrument.
It's not in key order, but Telemann wrote a set of 12 fantasias for this instrument. This instrument plays 64 variations on a 4-bar sarabande theme that begins with a D minor triad on beat 2. Fifteen sonatas for this instrument, each with a different tuning and paired religious engraving, plus a long passacaglia, make up Heinrich Biber's Rosary Sonatas. A sonata for this instrument in G minor has a key signature of one flat only, and opens Bach's set of 6 solo pieces for it that alternates (*) sonatas and partitas. A long chaconne in D minor ends the fourth of those pieces for this instrument, which Joseph Joachim ("YO-zef YAW-khim") revived. Tartini has it play many double stops in his Devil's Trill Sonata. Fritz Kreisler and the composer of 24 Caprices, NiccolÃ² Paganini, played this instrument. For 10 points, name this high-pitched string instrument
It's not in key order, but Telemann wrote a set of 12 fantasias for this instrument.
violin