Books › The story of the violin, 1904 › scan 21
Scan 21
The story of the violin, 1904
18 lines. Read by computer on 24 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1Story of the Violin
3CHAPTER IX.
4VIOLIN ART IN FRANCE.
5Time of Louis XIV.—The cream of the profession—Corelli’s failure—The use of vocal music for instruments—The names of first French violinists—Jean Marie Leclair—Pierre Gaviniés ……………………………………………. 235
7CHAPTER X.
8VIOLIN ART IN FRANCE (continued).
9Viotti and French violin art—Illustrious period—Best-known pupils of Viotti—Rode—Rode’s playing—Rudolph Kreutzer—Kreutzer’s playing—His famous forty studies—Baillot—A new phase in French violin art—A lively tug-of-war—The Belgian school—Belgian influence in Paris—Characteristics of the Belgian school—Poland—Bohemia, Norway, and Spain ……………………………………………………. 241
11CHAPTER XI.
12VIOLIN ART IN ENGLAND.
13Receptive rather than productive—Prejudices—Foreign artists—English violinists—Seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries—Unknown prompter ……………………………………………. 251
15CHAPTER XII.
16THE LADY VIOLINIST.
17In her charms—In her glory ……………………………………………. 258
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.