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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1896
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1PREFACE
3Music began for me in what may well be termed a paradise on earth; and often have I thanked Providence that, by its means, the joys of this world have almost equalled the sorrows which, alas! are inseparable from our existence. A lovely country in Warwickshire, not far from the home of Shakespeare, a splendid mansion, with beautiful gardens and meadows, stabling for six horses, ponds, and woods of majestic elms and beeches, made up an abode such as can only be found in Merry England. It is natural enough that an intense love of melody should have entered my childish heart with the song of the wild birds and the perfumes of the flowers. There was music constantly in our house at Ladywood, and all around us.
5When my father returned from the University of Jena, where he had passed a good many years, he brought back with him, not only a fine collection of student songs, but a violin. He was taught the violin during his residence in Germany; and though I never heard him play more than a few notes, I have
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