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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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1to accept a fixed position however tempting.
3Being at Milan about the spring of 1813, he experienced a return of a severe malady from which he had previously suffered, and which produced much debility in after years. It was at this period that he composed his famous variations on the 'Witches' Dance.' It was only on the 29th of October following that he was enabled to give his first concert there, exciting a sensation which the journals of Italy and Germany made known to the world.
5In 1816 he was again at Genoa, while Lafont, the eminent French violinist, was at Milan. Anxious to hear his illustrious contemporary, Paganini repaired thither. An arrangement was made by which they were to play together in public. This meeting gave rise to a display of power on both sides. The Frenchman, of course, thought himself the victor: he was an accomplished violinist, and the idol of his own countrymen. There can be no doubt, however, that the great Italian carried the day. A similar circumstance occurred two years later
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