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Musical notes. I. The great composers. II. Violinists and the violin. III. The violin and its history, 1869
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1so extravagant that the best informed musicians, at the commencement of the present century, almost universally set their face against what they termed his crude efforts, which they considered to have set all legitimate rules at defiance—we allude to Ludwig Van Beethoven, born 1770. Indeed it was long before his works were admitted into the domain of what was feasible or agreeable. In the year 1792, being then 22 years of age, he went to Vienna, in order to improve himself under the tuition of Haydn. A coolness, however, subsequently sprang up between them. In the earlier compositions of Beethoven we may certainly detect the influence of Mozart; not that Beethoven was in any respect a copyist; and he was not long in striking out a path for himself. His compositions are very numerous, especially his solo sonatas for the pianoforte. He also produced some for pianoforte and violin, and a few for pianoforte and violoncello, some stringed trios, and a few for pianoforte, violin, and violoncello—17 quartetts, about four of which are
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