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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1dent of the past will find in Italy a constant source of power and beauty, spreading its joyful and refining influence over the whole world.
3It is to Italy we must look for the greatest of violin-players as for the greatest violin-makers; and though other nations, especially France and Germany, and even England, have successfully followed in the footsteps of Italian art, we shall have in the present volume ample evidence that to Italy the world owes an enormous debt of melody and inspiration.
5It is not often that the French will admit superiority in any other nation; but M. Choron tells us in his well-known work that the Italians have been "the instructors of all Europe in instrumental composition." In violin music their compositions have served as models, and the same may be said with regard to the harpsichord, "all other solo pieces have been constructed on these models," etc.
7The very first violin-player of eminence was a certain Giovanni Battista, who lived in 1590, and to whom various old writers allude on account of his clever performances. We know, however, very little of him, and his instrument was very
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