Such was Sergei Rachmaninoff's admiration for Bach's Violin Partita in E Major, BWV 1006, that he arranged three of its seven movements — Prelude, Gavotte and Gigue — for solo piano.

Joseph Nagyvary, professor emeritus in biochemistry at Texas A&M, says of the various vowels he identified in their violins, only two were Italian -- the "i" and "e ... a scale on his violin ...