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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
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1occasion, for during a fine summer afternoon in June I also had the good fortune to pass a moment such as that so vividly described by the great violinist. It was among the German hills of Waldeck, whilst resting on a sunny slope, I heard for the first time in my life the tinkling of the distant sheep-bells coming from the side of a neighbouring hill, and gradually approaching the spot at which I sat listening to those fairy-like sounds. Nothing I have ever met with in music can completely realise the enchanting effect those soft, delicious sounds produced upon me, not even those charming mountain strains in Rossini's Guillaume Tell, nor Alard's beautiful little work Souvenirs des Pyrénées, not to speak of several clever pastoral piano solos, though there is something in all these that approaches the magical result to which I allude. This effect is, no doubt, heightened by the beauty of the surrounding scenery, the colours of the flowers, the fragrance of the air, the warm sunshine, and the thousand varied aspects of nature.
3A very different kind of sound struck the ears of the celebrated Viotti when strolling one evening in Paris, on the Champs Elysées, with his friend Marie Langlé (father of the musician Ferdinand Langlé), by whom the circumstance is related. Marie Langlé was an excellent professor of harmony, a composer of some operatic works, and one of the instructors of the young military ama-
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