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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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1culminates in a total change of taste, and opinions, at any rate, for the time being. In the case of the inductive sciences, the brilliant talents of Lord Bacon shone conspicuously, and exerted a beneficial influence in favour of increased experimental researches. So with painting and sculpture, the influence of Raffaelle and Michael Angelo was strongly visible in the labours of their contemporaries and successors. Again, in the sister art, it is impossible to overestimate the immense superiority of J. Sebastian Bach to all others in his generation. The names of Glück and Handel run pretty much in the same parallel.
3But to come nearer to our own subject, the great Genoese performer, who, at the beginning of the present century, took the world of connoisseurs by surprise, seems to have created a new interest in the study of the violin. It is at any rate certain that the entire modern school has become, through him, revolutionized; though perhaps not altogether in a healthy manner. But, the Paganini fever having in
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