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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1ficial effect to add arbitrary variations (especially in chamber music) of his own to the composers' text.
3This judgment will probably be found to be on the whole the correct one, though one must demur to some of the remarks as to Ernst's compositions. The F sharp minor Concerto is not only a splendid work for the violin which affords the virtuoso ample opportunity for exhibiting his skill, but is also genuinely inspired, and it probably owes its fate in being consigned to comparative oblivion to its enormous technical difficulties. Ernst by his compositions proves himself to have been more than any other the violinist who combined the technical difficulties of the French School of Paganini with the great tone of the German (and especially of the Spohr) school.
5Ernst was born 6th May, 1814, at Brünn, and after learning a little at home, entered the Vienna Conservatorium, where among other masters he had Seyfried to teach him composition. In 1830 he made his first tour through Munich and Paris where he came under De Beriot's influence. Still travelling, he first appeared in London in 1844, but repeated his visit frequently; in fact he was a traveller during his whole life, and never it is said, occupied a fixed appointment. In 1857 he was attacked by an illness which gradually grew worse until it become incurable; he also gradually lost the desire for violin playing, and after intense bodily and mental suffering he died at Nice, October 8th, 1865.
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