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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1896
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1seven or eight pupils, yet his influence has extended throughout the world, and is felt by composers of the present day, even after the wonderful flights of Paganini, De Bériot, and Ernst.
3Viotti was universally regarded as the greatest violinist of his time, though he must have been run very closely by his contemporary Campagnoli, of Dresden, and several others. He was one of those rare phenomena in the world of art in whom talent and modesty were admirably combined, and in whom the powers of the virtuoso were equalled by those of the composer.
5After being appointed, at twenty years of age, first violin to the Chapel Royal at Turin, a position which he held for three years, he travelled for some time as a solo player. Meeting with a most flattering reception at Berlin, he continued his course to Paris, where he arrived when he was about twenty-five years of age, and made his first appearance at the Concerts Spirituels, the chief place at that time where artistes of eminence were introduced to the Parisian public.
7The Concerts Spirituels were established in March 1725, as a kind of annex to the Opera, like the Promenade Concerts of our time in London. They were given in one of the rooms in the Palace of the Tuileries, and were continued until the outbreak of the Revolution. Their name is due to the fact that they were devoted chiefly to sacred music,
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