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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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1conjointly prepared the violin 'Method' used there.
3Baillot was born about the year 1770-1. He was at an early age instructed at Rome by a professor of the school of Tartini. Having reached Paris about the year 1795, he received his professorial appointment. He was pronounced an accomplished finished performer on the instrument; his tone was pure in quality, yet telling in its effect. Moreover, in the execution of the music before him, he displayed that attention to the various nicer shades of expression, which has uniformly characterized the best instances of the French school—the flexibility of his method enabling him to read each composition in its own peculiar character. Perhaps few professors qualified so many excellent pupils. His death took place in 1842.
5We next find Habeneck, who, born in the year 1781, and having received instruction at a very early age from his father, an obscure performer in a military band, passed several years without a master, labouring all the while at
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