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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1XIV.—HENRY SCHRADIECK.
3BORN on the 29th April, 1846, at Hamburg, Schradieck was the son of a professor of the violin, from whom he received his first instruction on that instrument, and indeed in the art of music. Beginning to play at four years of age, it was only a year later that he made his first public appearance, when he played the sonata in F by Beethoven, Op. 17.
5A year later again, he played in a concert arranged by the Hamburg Pestalozzi institute and created quite a furore by his wonderful execution of De Beriot's seventh "air varié," though this was out-done a week or two later when he played in a concert given by Strauss, this time choosing for his solos an arrangement of an air
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