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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1XII.—WASIL WASILEWIC BESEKIRSKIJ.
3THE subject of this sketch, who, in many respects is one of the foremost virtuosi of the day, possesses great elegance in performance, and is a veritable master over all the difficulties of modern technique.
5Educated at the Conservatorium in Moscow (in which town he was born in 1836), where he received his first instruction in music on the violin, violoncello and piano, he made his first bid for fame in 1850 in the town of his birth, and very soon afterwards became a member of the Opera orchestra there. In 1858 he went to
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