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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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1was marked in this country by the presence of Viotti, as we have already seen, and subsequently by the establishment of the Philharmonic Society. These were the two most prominent circumstances affecting the progress of instrumental music at that period. For, in truth, the troubled condition of Europe was such as to leave people little to think or care about but 'wars and rumours of wars.' Moreover, there was no national school of musical art, no 'Royal Academy of Music,' up to that time. All interest in the art, in its higher form, was confined to the upper circles of society. How it fared in this country, under such circumstances, under such auspices, is matter of notoriety. The generality of the fashionable world attached itself to the Italian opera, almost exclusively; and, as is commonly observed, the musical art, per se, degenerated, simply because the public became more intent upon the performing stars than upon the music performed, or their conception of the merits of musical composition became merged in their judgment
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