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The arts and crafts book of the worshipful Guild of violin-makers of Markneukirchen, from the year 1677 to the year 1772, 1894
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1noble-minded Bohemian settlers, who had become exiles for their faith's sake, should forget to give their faithful services to the evangelical church-service, and to do honour to the congregation by the added beauty of musical support. This habit was so deeply rooted in the lives of this religious sect, that a mighty convulsion was caused among them when, in the beginning of this century (through discordance among the choir-directors of the church), only three violinists were allowed to take part in the service. This is recorded by Heinrich Gläsel in his record of noteworthy facts written in the Vogtlandisch dialect.
3Meanwhile in Europe, and especially in Germany, but little orchestral music was performed, excepting perhaps at the petty courts of the Landgraves, and at a few particularly musical centres. The researches of the musical archaeologists of to-day have only succeeded in placing the origin of public string-orchestral concerts at a hundred years back, reckoning from the present time. It is probably within the knowledge of the whole world what service was rendered to music in this respect by Spohr, Marschner, Schubert, and Meyerbeer; but when we try to go back as far as the 17th or even the first half of the 18th centuries, we encounter, even among those learned in musical history, a conviction that we are groping in the dark, unable to form an opinion of any distinctively characteristic type of concert music, at least as far as Germany is concerned.
5In Italy, from classic times the home of art, and in France, the two countries which
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