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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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1ation forms no exception to the statement. An instrument was put into his hands the moment he could hold it: moreover, almost before the lapse of a few years, such was the force of genius, and such the attendant application, that a considerable degree of proficiency was attained. But so much continued study at an early age (carried on, it would seem, at the stern command of his father), threatened to undermine the powers of the child's constitution; and traces of this enervation presented themselves in after years. At eight years of age, we learn, he composed his first violin sonata (now lost); and a year later made his public début with immense success. Even at this early period, the juvenile performer had gone beyond his preceptors, and was seeking out new methods in the mechanism of the instrument,—laying the foundation of those wonderful effects which, in after years, enthralled the musical world, outstripping the most striking peculiarities of his most talented contemporaries. That this statement presents no exaggerated estimate the
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