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Famous violinists of to-day and yesterday
Lahee, Henry Charles, 1856-1953. Boston: L. C. Page, 1899.
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| 6 | Music Lovers' Series | Read | |
| 19 | FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDA… | Read | |
| 20 | the passionate young enthusiast, who mad… | Read | |
| 21 | with the concentrated hue and sweetness… | Read | |
| 22 | of the great Cremona school of violin ma… | Read | |
| 23 | all sizes were used in ecclesiastical mu… | Read | |
| 24 | at Dresden, in which the variety of bowi… | Read | |
| 25 | position for the violin, and of violin p… | Read | |
| 26 | His grisly beard was long and thick, | Read | |
| 27 | 19 | country was a great musician more sure o… | Read |
| 28 | 20 | tune, which he nor any in England saw th… | Read |
| 29 | 21 | fiddler named Grabu, who is said to have… | Read |
| 30 | 22 | established regular concerts at his hous… | Read |
| 33 | 25 | find in their place in succeeding chapte… | Read |
| 34 | 26 | heard Spohr, and after that his diligenc… | Read |
| 35 | 27 | Continent, the English were too fully oc… | Read |
| 36 | 28 | The word "school," so frequently used in… | Read |
| 37 | 29 | and his pupil Joachim, a Hungarian (scho… | Read |
| 38 | 30 | CHAPTER II. | Read |
| 46 | 34 | limited knowledge of the violin, Corelli… | Read |
| 47 | 35 | funeral. On this occasion, the works wer… | Read |
| 48 | 36 | went to Venice and studied under Vivaldi… | Read |
| 49 | 37 | been called the grandfather of our moder… | Read |
| 50 | 38 | such progress that the princess engaged… | Read |
| 51 | 39 | There is little doubt that the principle… | Read |
| 52 | 40 | Anêt, was born in 1687, and turned to th… | Read |
| 53 | 41 | Giuseppe Torelli was leader of a church… | Read |
| 54 | 42 | — he was forbidden to say mass in the fu… | Read |
| 55 | 43 | He left Dresden and went to Prague, wher… | Read |
| 56 | 44 | violins, which he stated were the best i… | Read |
| 63 | 51 | held in the chapel of San Antonio, and a… | Read |
| 64 | 52 | his works that he occupies a high place… | Read |
| 68 | 56 | expressive, and admirable performer;" bu… | Read |
| 69 | 57 | of violin playing, and the rapidity of h… | Read |
| 70 | 58 | Covent Garden Theatre. He was criticised… | Read |
| 75 | 63 | on great terms of friendship. This enter… | Read |
| 76 | 64 | by misfortune. Some of the pieces were d… | Read |
| 77 | 65 | the opera from its state of decadence, a… | Read |
| 78 | 66 | discordant sounds, which, on investigati… | Read |
| 79 | 67 | hearing the story ran after Viotti, and… | Read |
| 80 | 68 | were Roberrechts, Pixis, Alday le jeune,… | Read |
| 81 | 69 | compiled the famous "Methode de Violon"… | Read |
| 82 | 70 | Rovelli, the teacher of Molique, Massart… | Read |
| 83 | 71 | linist Bridgetower, at the Augarten, in… | Read |
| 84 | 72 | produced. His eminence in his profession… | Read |
| 85 | 73 | Nardini, under whom he made rapid progre… | Read |
| 86 | 74 | band of Napoleon, after which he travell… | Read |
| 87 | 75 | to bring out the powerful contrasts and… | Read |
| 88 | 76 | to France he was appointed professor of… | Read |
| 89 | 77 | style. His intonation was perfect, his t… | Read |
| 90 | 78 | François Antoine Habeneck, the son of a… | Read |
| 94 | 82 | Lafont's career came to a sudden end by… | Read |
| 95 | 83 | example of purity of style and legitimat… | Read |
| 96 | 84 | confined to the mere rudiments, and he a… | Read |
| 97 | 85 | Brunswick asking for means to carry out… | Read |
| 98 | 86 | While in Russia he met Clementi and Fiel… | Read |
| 99 | 87 | many solo pieces as well as some sonatas… | Read |
| 108 | 96 | contract, and when the musician departed… | Read |
| 111 | 99 | French nor German. As Spohr spoke no Eng… | Read |
| 112 | 100 | Karl Joseph Lipinski, the son of a Polis… | Read |
| 113 | 101 | guished himself by being the only person… | Read |
| 114 | 102 | ordered to read in a loud tone and with… | Read |
| 121 | 105 | Nicolo Paganini was the son of a commerc… | Read |
| 122 | 106 | him ill in bed, and not at all disposed… | Read |
| 123 | 107 | them, often working ten or twelve hours… | Read |
| 124 | 108 | reduced to great straits, and on one occ… | Read |
| 125 | 109 | gamester is an object of contempt to all… | Read |
| 126 | 110 | the fair sex he had more than one romant… | Read |
| 127 | 111 | ment coincided with the period which was… | Read |
| 137 | 121 | violin virtuoso of this century in regar… | Read |
| 139 | 123 | fully closed. Before starting he took me… | Read |
| 140 | 124 | While the secret of Paganini's marvellou… | Read |
| 141 | 125 | turn, rigid, hardly ever moving a muscle… | Read |
| 154 | 138 | played the Kreutzer sonata, which fell e… | Read |
| 159 | 143 | bran was thrown from her horse and susta… | Read |
| 160 | 144 | him threw him into a state of despondenc… | Read |
| 161 | 145 | youth. He appeared in concerts at the ag… | Read |
| 175 | 155 | vellous stories are told of Sivori's inf… | Read |
| 176 | 156 | renown spread through Genoa, and he was… | Read |
| 206 | 186 | the proprietors of the saloon considered… | Read |
| 207 | 187 | the idea of engaging him to show off his… | Read |
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