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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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1same class. But these artists, good in themselves, did nothing to raise the quality of violin playing except as executants; nothing new was effected; no concerts produced of an original character to call for remark. In due time, the Philharmonic Society, as we have seen, became established. The above-mentioned artists, Salomon, Yaniewitz, Vaccari, Spagnoletti, and last but not least the veteran Viotti, being the principal performers, though the latter had for some time abandoned the practice of solo playing. Occasionally the Philharmonic Society introduced at its concerts classical chamber works of the great masters; and unquestionably those artistes possessed the ability to do justice to such compositions.
3Moreover, we may be quite sure that they often in private circles employed their leisure hours in circulating a taste for the incomparable quartetts of Mozart and Haydn amongst the amateurs of their days. Much had been due, as we have said, to the influence of Viotti, whose career, however, was now closed. But he
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