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Scan 59
A teacher of the violin and other tales, 1891
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 43. See the scan on archive.org.
1his heart vibrates in such notes: his life, his heart, his tears exist in them, and through them in you. Just as one looks from a lofty precipitous height down into the teeming streets of a great city, full of pigmy forms, so in the majestic march of sound we get away from life and its littleness, and see the whole of life spread out before us, and feel the pathos of it with the pity of an archangel, as we could never have done in the bustle of the streets there below.'
3'You are cutting the ground from under my feet, my friend,' said the old Professor, rather testily. 'It is your business to teach music, mine to talk about it.'
5The old master smiled at this sally, but he went on all the same. I thought that he perceived in me a sympathetic listener.
7'Have you never felt that in the shrill, clear, surging chords of the higher notes you were climbing into a loftier existence, and
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