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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1smaller, and eventually a single year posing as a very important factor in the struggle. At present, the warriors in this department of art appear to be taking breath, but the fiddle fight is proceeding, the last shot having been fired by Germany. The Teutonic bolt is, however, entirely composed of philological conjectures as to the origin of names, and the end is, perhaps, not yet.
3It will, therefore, be as well to give a detailed account of the arguments adduced by German writers in support of the claims of their countrymen to be the originators of the Italian school of violin making, which culminated with Stradivari. These arguments were put in their most forcible form by Dr. Edward Schebek, and were embodied in an article which appeared in the Vienna Press in 1872. This article was reprinted in the Gazzetta di Venetzia in 1873, and it is from the columns of the latter paper I have taken the leading points of the Doctor's pleadings. He begins with a sentence from which readers will doubtless conclude that he is an enthusiast of the deepest dye: "In Prince Lobkovitz's castle at Eisenberg, which towers in superb grandeur over a precipice of the Erzgebirge, a solemn ceremony took place in the last days of October, 1872, which was well calculated to stir the emotions of all lovers of the violin." The instruments of the old chapel which, until then, had been preserved in the deserted theatre of the castle, and of which the greater portion had been collected in the time of Prince Joseph Francis Maximilian—the patron of Beethoven—were removed in order to be deposited among other treasures of art and literature in the castle of Raudnits. Dr. Schebek was
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