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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
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1my father made his acquaintance, and I had a few lessons from him. Every time he came he took a sheet of paper and wrote out the exercise he desired me to play—he was very fond of the key of A minor—but he could not speak a word of English, which made it rather awkward, as I knew very few words of German then.
3Soon, however, I was destined to quit this beautiful and blissful abode, and, like that Hungarian violinist, go across the sea to foreign lands, taking with me Spohr's "Violin School," and a few little Italian pieces which my mother accompanied beautifully on the piano.
5In Brussels I had three lessons a week, for five years, from Henri Standish, the able répétiteur of the class of De Bériot at the Conservatoire de Musique; and I attended the Italian and French operas very frequently. In 1856 I left for Paris, where I had many musical friends, and where I joined an orchestra for a short time. But science and literature claimed most of my time there. During the last thirty years or so that I have resided almost constantly in my own country, my violin has been in very frequent requisition. My répertoire, which has served me in hundreds of public concerts and soirées musicales, comprises the compositions of De Bériot, Paganini, Panofka, Hauser, Lafont, Artot, Dancla, Bazzini, Alard, Ernst, Papini, and several other less known composers. For four years I
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