Francesco Saverio Geminiani (1687-1762), Italian violinist, composer and music theorist, was born in Lucca, studied with Arcangelo Corelli and settled in London in 1714, where he attained great renown as virtuoso and teacher.


His most well-known compositions are the Concerti grossi op. 2 and op. 3. His most important published theoretical work was The Art of Playing on the Violin, one of the essential eighteenth-century treatises on violin-playing, which appeared in 1730.