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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1teenth century which is referred to at the beginning of this preface.
3I feel it almost a duty to my readers to explain why the present work should differ somewhat widely in character from those which have hitherto escaped from my pen.
5I have long been a violinist; and though circumstances have caused me to adopt another profession instead of that of music, yet, from early childhood, my mother's assiduous care and untiring energy taught me to make my violin a source of recreation which has amply repaid me for years of toil. To her, whose efforts have been continued by the dear partner of my joys and sorrows, I owe my first successes in the drawing-room and the concert-room, and the power, not only of giving pleasure to thousands, but of obtaining funds for certain charitable purposes which my purse would be totally inadequate to supply. Let me add to this that my father presented me with a fine Stradivarius instrument, when I was little more than twelve years old, and gave me my first music lesson.
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