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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1896
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1chemist and toxicologist, but at that time frequently enchanted his hearers by his exquisite voice.
3When Viotti had abandoned the concert room, one of his greatest delights was to improvise violin parts to the piano-playing of his friend, Madame Montegerault, at her house in the suburb of Montmorency. This amiable and talented lady would seat herself at the piano and play a brilliant improvisation in the Concerto style, and Viotti would take up his violin and join in the performance, producing a series of extempore passages which admirably displayed his wonderful powers and delighted all present.
5With all this, he did not keep clear of meddling in the disturbed politics of the period—or, perhaps, they meddled with him—and he was compelled to fly from Paris, as did his friend Cherubini, who had resided with him for about three years, and in 1792 he came suddenly to London; Cherubini meanwhile seeking refuge at a friend's house near Rouen. Both these eminent musicians were at that time engaged at the Théâtre Feydeau, and all the artistes of that opera house fled likewise to escape the horrors of the Revolution.
7In London Viotti appeared at the well-known Salomon's Concerts. Every one was charmed with his originality, his fine large bowing, bold style, and refined taste. But his dislike to performing at concerts as a solo-player, and his speculative
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