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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1the success so pronounced that no less than ten concerts were given. And so it went on; wherever the quartet appeared, there did triumph follow in its train.
3After ten years of this, Hilpert retired, and his place was filled by Hegyesi, and the party remained thus until it was disbanded in 1880. It is perhaps only fair to say that Hilpert left to take a more lucrative post in Vienna.
5When the "Florentine Quartet" finally dissolved, Becker in 1880 founded another party, which consisted of himself as first violin, his son Hans (now a professor in the Leipzig Conservatorium) as viola, his more famous son Hugo, the excellent violoncellist, and his daughter Jeanne, a pupil of Reinecke's and Bargiel's, as pianist. With this party Becker earned new laurels, but the quartet was once more broken up, this time by the death of the principal, Becker himself, which occurred at Mannheim on October 10th, 1884. Becker's sons, pupils respectively of Rayer and Singer, and Grützmacher, are worthy bearers of their father's name, and not only in Germany, but also in England Hugo Becker enjoys the reputation of being one of the foremost violoncellists of the day.
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