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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1variations, fantasias, etc., are piquant and effective of course, and they one and all have the good quality of being grateful for the performer; they are much in use at home and abroad for teaching purposes. Unfortunately they have to give way in the concert room to modern works of vastly inferior calibre which happen to suit the vitiated taste of so many latter-day concert-goers.
3De Beriot died at Brussels on the 8th of April, 1870. He possessed two splendid Maggini violins (which are said to be now in the possession of the Prince of Chimay), one of which he picked up for fifteen francs in an old shop in Paris! But he was himself an amateur violin maker of more than ordinary accomplishment, and a copy of a Maggini which he made is very highly spoken of, though its present whereabouts is not stated.
5It is hard to understand from the generality of Magginis that one sees, that such instruments would have suited the style of de Beriot, in that their tone is usually somewhat nasal. But there are in existence Magginis (e.g., that in the possession of Concertmeister Singer) which have a tone that is hardly if at all inferior to that of the finest Strad.
7To the above account may be added a few notes. It is said that all de Beriot learned from Jacotot may be summed up in the platitudes, "Perseverance triumphs over all obstacles;" and "we are not willing to do all that we are able to do." These self-evident truths de Beriot (who was of a contemplative turn of mind), turned to his own account with great profit. He was never a pupil (in the ordinary sense of the term) of Viotti, for it was the latter who said "You have a fine style! give yourself up to the business of perfecting it! hear all men of talent; profit by everything, and imitate nothing." This de Beriot thought implied that he should not have a master, but should work out his own salvation.
9De Beriot played at a Philharmonic Concert in London in 1826, and subsequently appeared at several
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