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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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1trammelled by conventionalities; and the grandeur of his conceptions is now universally recognized.
3We have now disposed of the great classical composers who flourished before our day. Beethoven has been fairly lost to the world for half a century. He, with his two predecessors, Mozart and Haydn, may, however, be considered the founders of the modern school of music. The present age has witnessed a host of composers in all styles, and of varied excellence; but our object has been to select the giants of the art. Two have still to be mentioned in this category who have lately passed away from among us, Spohr and Mendelssohn. We are not concerned with stars whose light shone on any particular instrument. Thus we have passed over many distinguished names—Clementi, Hummel, Ries, Viotti, Paganini, Moscheles, &c., and for the same reason we do not dwell upon the merits of Chopin, the Tennyson of the pianoforte, and a composer of undoubted genius. At first sight Spohr should be excluded with
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