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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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1Contemporary with Rode were two violinists who also rendered the French school illustrious. We allude to Kreutzer and Baillot. First, Rudolph Kreutzer, born at Versailles in 1766, received his early instructions from A. Stamitz, a moderate musician of the German School. He was subsequently placed under the tuition of Gaviniès, a matured artiste of high standing, but who hardly comes under our notice here as one of the moderns. We learn, however, that young Kreutzer's talent received a fresh impetus from contact with the great Viotti, who was about 11 years his senior.
3The style of Kreutzer's performance seems to have been somewhat original, but devoid of that tendresse and elegance which characterized Rode; while probably he was inferior to Viotti in breadth. He must be looked upon as a bold ingenious performer, one who founded a school for the instrument, a kind of offshoot from that which sprang out of the labours of Viotti and Rode. Early in his career he essayed the composition of opera upon a very slender basis of
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