Giuseppe Tartini, a Venetian virtuoso violinist, music theorist, and
also-ran Baroque composer--his
also-ran status is very much down to the vagaries of fame and popularity and to the general indifference of history and not to any lack of skill on his part.
According to Wikipedia, he is the first known owner of a violin made by Antonio Stradivari--he seems to have owned more than one--he liked a good axe.
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Tartini
Musicans and Women
After his father's death in 1710, he married Elisabetta Premazore, a woman his father would have disapproved of because of her lower social class and age difference. Unfortunately, Elisabetta was a favorite of the powerful Cardinal Giorgio Cornaro, who promptly charged Tartini with abduction. Tartini fled Padua to go to the monastery of St. Francis in Assisi, where he could escape prosecution.
Woodshedding
Legend says when Tartini heard Francesco Maria Veracini's playing in 1716, he was impressed by it and dissatisfied with his own skill. He fled to Ancona and locked himself away in a room to practice, according to Charles Burney, "in order to study the use of the bow in more tranquility, and with more convenience than at Venice, as he had a place assigned him in the opera orchestra of that city". Tartini's skill improved tremendously...
Some shred guitarists like (parts of) his
Sonata G Minor, (old)
nicknamed the
Devil 's Trill Sonata because of the technical difficulties it presents a violinist.
With electric guitar below: