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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1follow him and bring his violin, he took the boy straightway to the princess, and made him play before her the melodies that were still ringing in the ears of the pot-boys.
3We do not know all that passed at that interview; but no doubt Mademoiselle de Montpensier was as surprised and delighted as the worthy Comte de Nogent, for Lulli, who had been only taught the first elements of his art by an Italian friar, was immediately placed by her under a proper master; and, in a comparatively short time, he became a professor in his turn. After a while he was elevated to the rank of Court Musician, and, his reputation as a violinist having spread, the King himself desired to hear him. Lulli was nineteen years of age when he played for the first time before Louis XIV., who was so enchanted with his performance, and with that of some of his pupils, that he engaged their permanent services as Les petits Violons du Roi. There had existed, for some time, at the French Court a band of twenty-four violin-players; they were called "The Violins of the Chamber," and had attracted the attention of our Charles II., who endeavoured to imitate this institution in England. It is said that the petits violons
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