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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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1done duty for the past half-century. For the acquirement of the modern specialty termed the staccato, one of these exercises, written expressly to that end, has furnished the true key for many aspirants. We may here mention that another set of thirty-six Studies by one Fiorillo (of whom little more is known) have proved almost, perhaps quite, as great a boon to the violin-practising world. These latter have been recently edited by Spohr, that great master having added a second violin accompaniment: strong tribute of praise!
3To sum up;—Rode, Kreutzer, and Fiorillo, as study writers, form a grand triumvirate quite unparalleled. The career of Kreutzer, unlike that of Rode, was unchequered by disappointment. After filling high posts in his profession, and being decorated with the Legion of Honour, he died at Geneva in 1831.
5Pierre Baillot, of high name in the French school, followed in the wake of Kreutzer and Rode; each received the appointment of Professor at the Paris Conservatoire, and the three
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