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Famous violinists of to-day and yesterday

1925.

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17 FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDA… Read
18 12 the passionate young enthusiast, who mad… Read
19 13 with the concentrated hue and sweetness… Read
20 14 of the great Cremona school of violin ma… Read
21 15 all sizes were used in ecclesiastical mu… Read
22 16 at Dresden, in which the variety of bowi… Read
23 17 position for the violin, and of violin p… Read
24 18 His grisly beard was long and thick, Read
25 19 country was a great musician more sure o… Read
26 20 tune, which he nor any in England saw th… Read
27 21 fiddler named Grabu, who is said to have… Read
28 22 established regular concerts at his hous… Read
31 25 find in their place in succeeding chapte… Read
32 26 heard Spohr, and after that his diligenc… Read
33 27 Continent, the English were too fully oc… Read
34 28 The word "school," so frequently used in… Read
35 29 and his pupil Joachim, a Hungarian (scho… Read
36 CHAPTER II. Read
39 31 that city, exhibited such jealousy and v… Read
40 32 on being asked the reason, answered that… Read
42 34 limited knowledge of the violin, Corelli… Read
43 35 funeral. On this occasion, the works wer… Read
44 36 went to Venice and studied under Vivaldi… Read
45 37 been called the grandfather of our moder… Read
46 38 such progress that the princess engaged… Read
47 39 There is little doubt that the principle… Read
48 40 Anêt, was born in 1687, and turned to th… Read
49 41 Giuseppe Torelli was leader of a church… Read
50 42 — he was forbidden to say mass in the fu… Read
51 43 He left Dresden and went to Prague, wher… Read
52 44 violins, which he stated were the best i… Read
56 48 In short, he imagined that he presented… Read
57 49 This composition is said to have secured… Read
58 50 ing him with those qualities which make… Read
59 51 held in the chapel of San Antonio, and a… Read
60 52 his works that he occupies a high place… Read
64 56 expressive, and admirable performer;" bu… Read
65 57 of violin playing, and the rapidity of h… Read
66 58 Covent Garden Theatre. He was criticised… Read
71 63 on great terms of friendship. This enter… Read
72 64 by misfortune. Some of the pieces were d… Read
73 65 the opera from its state of decadence, a… Read
74 66 discordant sounds, which, on investigati… Read
75 67 hearing the story ran after Viotti, and… Read
76 68 were Roberrechts, Pixis, Alday le jeune,… Read
77 69 compiled the famous "Methode de Violon"… Read
78 70 Rovelli, the teacher of Molique, Massart… Read
79 71 linist Bridgetower, at the Augarten, in… Read
80 72 produced. His eminence in his profession… Read
81 73 Nardini, under whom he made rapid progre… Read
82 74 band of Napoleon, after which he travell… Read
83 75 to bring out the powerful contrasts and… Read
84 76 to France he was appointed professor of… Read
85 77 style. His intonation was perfect, his t… Read
86 78 François Antoine Habeneck, the son of a… Read
87 79 thoven. He became director of the Grand… Read
88 80 we should assuredly have been lost." "Ye… Read
89 81 brother, Berthaume. Under his care he ma… Read
90 82 Lafont's career came to a sudden end by… Read
91 83 example of purity of style and legitimat… Read
92 84 confined to the mere rudiments, and he a… Read
93 85 Brunswick asking for means to carry out… Read
94 86 While in Russia he met Clementi and Fiel… Read
95 87 many solo pieces as well as some sonatas… Read
104 96 contract, and when the musician departed… Read
107 99 French nor German. As Spohr spoke no Eng… Read
108 100 Karl Joseph Lipinski, the son of a Polis… Read
109 101 guished himself by being the only person… Read
110 102 ordered to read in a loud tone and with… Read
115 105 Paganini. Read
116 106 him ill in bed, and not at all disposed… Read
155 145 youth. He appeared in concerts at the ag… Read
196 186 the proprietors of the saloon considered… Read
197 187 the idea of engaging him to show off his… Read
330 318 always have been synonymous with all tha… Read
331 319 would not have challenged comparison wit… Read
372 360 organisations of the Russian capital, un… Read