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The violin and its music, 1881
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1set of Easy Pieces, for two Violins and Bass. Op. 9, Fourth Book of Sonatas for Violin, with Bass. Op. 10, Six Concertos for three Violins, Tenor, Bass, Organ, and Violoncello. Op. 12, Second Book of Sonatas for two Violins, without Bass. Op. 13, Overtures and Sonatas for two Violins with Bass. Op. 14, Posthumous Sonata, second edition, engraved by Cousineau, Paris.
3Pierre Gaviniès is the next Violinist of the old French school to be noticed. His knowledge of the fingerboard was greater than that of Le Clair, but his predecessor surpassed him in breadth of style—judging from the compositions of each master, without reference to their own particular manner of playing. All the Violin writings of Gaviniès are eminently French in style; they teem with piquant phrases, which, when rendered with the short and light bowing belonging to Gaviniès' time, are remarkably pleasing and striking. In playing these early French Violin compositions, as indeed the works of all periods and nationalities, the mind of the performer must ever be centred in the peculiar style of the period to which the work belongs. To apply the vigour and breadth of style which was developed by Viotti, and still more so by his followers, to the sonatas of Le Clair or Gaviniès, affords but a very faint idea of the invention of the composer. Gaviniès' bow was a puny, much rounded contrivance, containing about half as many hairs as are found in a modern one, and consequently the tone
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