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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1admiration of all who had the good fortune to hear him play. Michael Kelly heard him at Florence in a concert. He says: "I had the gratification of hearing a Sonata on the violin, played by the great Nardini. Though very far advanced in years, he played divinely. He spoke with great affection of his favourite pupil, Thomas Linley, who, he said, possessed powerful abilities." Dupaty, a Frenchman, who published some letters on Italy, and who heard him in 1783, says: "His violin is a voice, or possesses one." His music, like his character, was of a serious cast, and the latter doubtless harmonised well with that of his old friend and professor. Nardini died at Florence in 1796; and has left a number of compositions, solos, sonatas, trios, concertos, some trios for flute, and some manuscripts. His style is large, his ideas clear, and the expression natural.*
3* Nardini made a remarkable pupil in the person of Francesco Vaccari, born at Modena in 1772, who appeared at Mantua when only thirteen years of age. In 1804 he held for a short time the appointment of violin-solo to the King of Spain; he appeared on two separate occasions in England, and his performance was distinguished for purity of tone, good taste, and elegance of expression. Thomas Linley, Nardini's English pupil, was born at Bath in 1756, and played in public at the
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