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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
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1necessary to connect together the outbursts of rapid and passionate execution. Thus he sometimes displeased the Neapolitans and Venetians, who from birth are inured to their lovely popular melodies and the luscious songs of the gondoliers.
3We have seen that by thirteen years of age all tuition, as far as masters are concerned, had ceased for him; and everything beyond this early instruction is due to his own personal efforts.
5It is a lesson to those who imagine that a master can do everything, and who constantly fly from one teacher to another in the hope of being made perfect by others instead of perfecting themselves. Aide toi, et Dieu t’aidera, should be the motto of all young violinists. Masters are indispensable, but most depends upon the student’s own efforts, and all does not consist in conquering mechanical difficulties.
7Let us see what Paganini did in the way of improving himself between the years of thirteen and twenty-four, when he published his curious Ventri quattro Caprici (Twenty-four Caprices), which had no more success with the violinists of that day than the outrageous fantasias imagined by Locatelli, of which mention has already been made.
9When he returned to Genoa in 1797, he began at this early age to write his first compositions for the violin, and to practise assiduously every day. As time went on he wrote his music so difficult that
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