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FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY, 1909
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1hearing the story ran after Viotti, and offered to supply him with as many as he would like for six francs apiece.
3Violin literature owes much to Viotti, for his compositions are numerous and contain beauties that have never been surpassed. His advice was sought by many young musicians, and among these was Rossini, who was destined to become great. De Bériot also sought out Viotti and played before him, but the old violinist told him that he had already acquired an original style which only required cultivating to lead to success, and that he could do nothing for him.
5Viotti was one of the first to use the Tourte bow, and he studied its effects closely, so that the sweep of his bow became his great characteristic, and was alike the admiration of his friends and the despair of his rivals. He died in 1824, after about two years of retirement.
7Among Viotti's most prominent pupils
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