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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1896
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1Famous Violinists
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5THE GREAT VIOLINISTS OF THE ITALIAN SCHOOL
7ITALY is the classic soil of the violin.
8To Italy we must look for the greatest of violin-players and for the finest makers of the instrument.
9Indeed, whether we take into consideration instrumental music, singing, painting, sculpture, or architecture, we find in Italy a constant source of power and beauty which has in ages past spread its beneficent influence over the whole of the civilised world. To no other country do we owe such an enormous debt of melody and inspiration.
10As the French writer Choron says, "the Italians have been the instructors of all Europe in instrumental composition," to which we may safely add, "and in many other things."
11In violin music the compositions of the Italian masters have been made the models from which all other solo pieces have been constructed. Modern
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