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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1fund of grace and expression, his tone uniting sweetness and power."
3"Giardini resided in England," says Dubourg,* "till the year 1784, when he went to Naples under the protection and patronage of Sir William Hamilton. There he continued five years, and then returned to this country; but his reception was not what it had formerly been." Like Henry Phillips, the singer, when he returned in later years from his American trip, he found his place filled up, his fashionable friends deserted him, his powers, when most required, were weaker. Giardini's health was impaired, he was sinking under confirmed dropsy, and "he found himself still doomed to the prosecution of his art when all his former excellence was lost. Instead of leading he now played in public only the tenor in quartets that he had recently composed." After attempting, unsuccessfully, a burletta opera at the little theatre in the Hay-market, he was induced in 1793 to go to St. Petersburg, and afterwards to Moscow, with his burletta performers. "The most cruel disappointment, however, attended him in each of
5* George Dubourg, The Violin, London, 1852.
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