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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1XXXI.—JEAN BECKER.
3THE founder of the so-called "Florentine Quartet," which, as everyone knows, had a world-wide reputation, must be regarded from two distinct points of view so far as his artistic life is concerned. At first he was a virtuoso and nothing more; later, however, when he had grown to years of artistic discretion, he became one of the greatest champions and exponents of all that is beautiful and noble and pure in the art of violin playing. He was tried by fire, he stood the test by the side of the greatest players in the foremost concert institutions of the world, and he amply proved by his manner of playing as well as by the great
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