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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1896
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3CHERUBINI AS A VIOLINIST
5MANY of my readers will be surprised to find the celebrated composer Luigi Cherubini mentioned as a violinist. However, a man may be a tolerably good performer on the violin without attaining to anything approaching celebrity in that capacity. But the author of Lodoiska, Medea, The Water Carriers, Anacreon, and a host of other operatic and religious works, did really know something of the secrets of the violin, and, in fact, it may be safely asserted that he owed his life to that very circumstance.
7Among other well-known composers of opera, I may mention that Balfe began his career as a violinist, and so did Auber; and this may go far to explain the melodious scores of the composers of The Bohemian Girl and Fra Diavolo.
9Maybe it was Cherubini's love for this wonderful instrument that helped to make him so intimate with the great virtuoso Viotti, with whom he resided at Paris for three whole years—not, indeed, for the sake of violin lessons. This intimacy was chiefly
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