Staggeringly.
Jefferson, the third President of our beloved nation, was staggeringly curious and an intellectually superior polymath. He was also an accomplished violinist. He bought a pocket fiddle that accompanied him wherever he went. Jefferson was an active member of chamber music that played for the royal governor of Virginia, and he admired Corelli, Haydn, Gluck, Handel, Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Boccherini, Stamitz, Clementi, and J.C. Bach (youngest son of J.S. Bach). The 6,500 volumes of sheet music that Jefferson sold to the government formed the nucleus of the Library of Congress. In addition to work of the previously mentioned composers, his collection contained sheet music by lesser known composers as well, such as Padre Martini, Gaetano Pugnani, Ignaz Pleyel, and Italianized German composer, Johann Adolph Hasse.
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