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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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1ently classical, and his sentiment of the purest kind. In his adagios he was majestic: and in his allegros quiet and imperturbable. His compositions display a command of all the resources of the instrument, and an entire absence of trick. If he failed in obtaining the applause of the multitude, he at any rate succeeded in enlisting the sympathies of the artistic world. The highest professors always listened to him with the most profound respect. Spohr, before hearing Paganini, received a visit from the great Italian violinist as they happened to be sojourning in the same town. Spohr begged to be favoured with a specimen of his brother artist's talent. Paganini excused himself by saying that he was suffering from a slight injury to a finger of his left hand: 'Were I to exhibit before yourself individually,' he said, 'I should affect a different style from that which I adopt before the general public, and I do not now feel in the humour. In my public performances I have a style of my own which never fails of complete success. We shall meet at a certain
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