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the history of the violin, 1864
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1director of the orchestra of the Princess Eliza, sister of Napoleon, and afterwards Grand Duchess of Tuscany. While with her he played one evening a solo on the third and fourth strings of his fiddle, and in 1810 played variations on the fourth string alone, which he performed in public for the first time at Parma, on the 16th of August, 1811. He is said to have written his first sonata at the age of eight, and many of his compositions contained such difficulties, that for some time they were considered insuperable. He died at Nice in 1840. Mayseder, born at Vienna in 1789, is known as a good writer, as well as a fine performer, and Festa is another good writer for the instrument. Joseph Reicha, born in Prague 1746, was a good player, and Artot, a Belgian, a most finished performer, died at the early age of 30, in 1845. There are so many excellent performers now constantly before the public, that it would be presumptuous in us to give any opinion on their relative merits, which would be out of our province; and therefore we will follow the example of the account given of the brave Gyges, and the brave Cloanthus, and their companions, by Virgil, and name De Beriot, born in 1802, skilled equally as a writer and a performer, and with taste and volume of tone excelled by none; Ole Bull, the distinguished Norwegian, Ernst, Sivori, Vieuxtemps, Lotto, and Wienawski, all of first-rate talent, to whom others are from time to time, by their skill, entitling themselves to be added; but we must particularly name Herr Joachim, whose tone, taste, and execution are unrivalled in every style. We shall name some other foreign players among those of England, as being, in fact, naturalized amongst us.
3As finished players on the violoncello on the Continent, Arnold Schoenebeck, Muntzberger, Danzi, and Hus-Desforges, wrote and adapted many pieces of music for
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