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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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1ing at the same time the post of Professor of the violin at the Conservatoire.
3It is not our intention to give minute biographical notices of any artiste. Suffice it to say that, after another tour, we find Rode again at Paris, about the year 1808. At this period of his career we are informed that a marked change had taken place in his style: his delivery, from having been fervid and energetic, seemed now to have become apathetic. Still, the purity of his mechanism seemed unimpaired. Though depressed for a time by the want of success, he still yearned for increased fame in distant quarters, and seemed no way reconciled to a relinquishment of his once brilliant career. After another mortifying effort in Paris, he returned home to die in 1830.
5It cannot be doubted that the talents of this consummate violinist exercised a marked influence over the race of executants who flourished at the beginning of the present century. His predecessor had wrought a great change in the state of the art, as we have before seen. The Italian
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