Arcangelo, a distinguished violinist and composer, was born at Fusignano, near Imola, in the territory of Bologna, in February 1653, and died at Rome on the 18th of January 1713. After finishing his musical studies in Italy he visited Germany, where he obtained employment at the court of Bavaria. In 1681 he returned to Italy and settled at Rome, residing in the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni, his steady friend and patron. He published twelve violin concertos, forty-eight violin trios in four books, and twelve violin sonatas. These sonatas, published at Rome in 1700, were his fifth work; and they have to the present day retained their high reputation in every violin school of Europe. All well-trained violinists have studied Corelli's twelve sonatas, in order to attain firmness of tone and breadth and dignity of style. In the first six of these sonatas, the movements with double stops and arpeggios, and others which give scope to all possible varieties of bowing in rapid passages, form admirable exercises for the student. In Corelli's time, and in his music, the shifting of the hand upon the finger-board of the violin was of very limited extent. We find a surprising change in the music of Corelli's pupil, Pietro Locatelli (that Paganini of the eighteenth century), who freely used the whole range of the finger-board. (See Locatelli.) Dr Burney, in the third volume of his History of Music, pp. 550-559, gives an account of Corelli's career and compositions. (G. F. G.)