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Scan 32
The violin and its music, 1881
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 10. See the scan on archive.org.
1upon, by using moveable type: which system was imitated first in Germany, by Ernard Oglin, of Augsburg, in the year 1507. Turning to the City of Nuremburg in the heyday of the Mastersingers, we find it was one of the most flourishing centres of commerce in Europe; from its trade and manufactures it derived enormous wealth, which, as usual, caused art to wait on affluence. Poets, Musicians, and Painters flocked thither, to give play to their genius, by sharing in its prosperity; within its walls lived Hans Sachs—the friend of Martin Luther—the son of a barber, and himself a cobbler; whose prolific pen produced upwards of four thousand master-songs! more than two hundred comedies and tragedies! and nearly two thousand comic tales! An herculean labour, though judged by the then existing standard of merit. Amid the musical life of old Nuremburg often dwelt Paul Hofhaimer, the Emperor Maximilian's famous organist, he who figures in the picture of the Triumph of Maximilian, limned by the hand of him whose name is indelibly written in the annals of the Bavarian city—Albert Durer.
3We have more than a passing interest in this greatest of German painters, since he has left us several representations of the Viol in his paintings and engravings, which serve as a key to the character and popularity of the instrument in the fifteenth century, and further, if I mistake not, he was himself a Violist; but there is yet another item of interest
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