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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1896
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1season, or about £4 or £5 for each concert. The violinist Mestrino got about the same, and Gervais about £3.
3After leaving his position at the Grand Opera, Viotti retired on a small pension and came to England, where he died on the 24th March 1824. Some time ago I received a letter from the well-known violinist, Victor Buziau, inquiring whether I could inform him where Viotti was interred. Not only was I unable to give him the desired information, but since then it has been impossible to make any researches with the view of discovering his last resting-place. Alas! many a man of talent, like Mozart himself, sleeps in an unknown tomb!
5Persons who knew Viotti intimately have left records of his highly poetical nature, and the value he attached to the simplest gifts of Providence. A modest violet discovered hidden among the leaves would transport him with joy. "All nature spoke to his heart," says M. Eymar, "and he yielded at once to its emotions."
7As a man of business, we are told, the strictest integrity and honour regulated his transactions, and his feelings were kind and benevolent; whilst as a musician, he is said never to have been surpassed in any of the highest qualities of violin-playing.
9During a visit to Switzerland he heard for the
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