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The story of the violin, 1904
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 257. See the scan on archive.org.
1Violin Art in England
3worthy English bow-performers on the violin in the eighteenth century is nearly complete.
5Of later date: Henry Blagrove (born at Nottingham, in 1811), who began the study of the violin at four, appeared in public at five, became the pupil of Spohr, was from 1834 leader of the Philharmonic Society concerts, and died in 1872 in London; further, Antonio James Aury, who made a name for himself on a concert tour lasting nine years; and John T. Carrodus, a pupil of Molique, who died in 1869, and is the grandfather of the family of clever violinists of that name.
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