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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1with accompaniments for guitar, viola and violoncello for him. These were often played by Paganini, Sivori, and friends, the first named taking the guitar part. But Sivori did not confine his studies to Paganini, for he was for a considerable time a pupil of Restano, the guitarist, and of Costa, whose classical tendencies to some extent counterbalanced the modernity of Paganini's teaching. [Ehrlich is wrong in stating that Sivori quitted Genoa in company with Paganini, and that the two came together to England. The latter first visited this country in 1832, at which time Sivori was again in his native place after a short sojourn in Paris.] About 1839 Sivori began again to wander, and his course took him through Russia, Belgium, Holland, France to England, and ultimately to America. In America he went everywhere, visited almost every city on the continent, and met with a number of adventures, many of which would bear repetition here did space permit. It is said that so much was he appreciated that on his arrival in certain towns the populace came forth to meet him, strewing roses in his path, and announcing his arrival to those who were unable to meet him, by means of a trombone. No violinist had ever before experienced such receptions as fell to the lot of Sivori where'er he walked; but in Mexico, Chili, Peru, through which he went on horseback, to Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, he was fêted like a monarch, and his course of travel was triumphant. Nevertheless he was not always free from danger to life.
3For eight years he wandered through the Americas before he returned to his native town, during which time he had amassed a considerable fortune. But of this he managed to get rid in a very short space of time by means of a series of unlucky speculations. Then he began once more to travel, and triumphantly marched through the length and breadth of the British Islands and the European continent, eventually reaching Paris for the second time in 1862. There he found the old admiration and warm feeling for him just the same as
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