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The violin and its music, 1881
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1French musical world, and as being sought for rather than himself seeking. Mendelssohn seems to have felt interested in his compositions, for we find in another letter, dated November, 1837, addressed to Moscheles, "Has Onslow written anything new?"
3The following is given as a list of Onslow's chamber compositions:—Thirty-Four Quintetts for two Violins, Tenor, Violoncello, and Double Bass; Thirty-Six String Quartetts; Trios for Pianoforte, Violin, and Violoncello, Op. 3, 14, 20, 24, 26, 27; Sextett with Pianoforte, Op. 30; Duetts for Piano and Violin, Op. 11, 15, 21, 29, 31; Sonatas for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 16: these are also adapted for Viola.
5Although the fame acquired by Lafont as a Violinist is remembered only by a few venerable musicians, it was of a character sufficiently remarkable to call for notice in these pages. He was born in 1781, and received tuition from Rode and Kreutzer. He, however, departed from the path of his instructors, and entered to some extent upon that which his contemporary Paganini pursued to its end. I am not aware that Lafont went the length of raising the pitch of his strings, or indulged in the freaks which many of Paganini's imitators did; yet with Lafont there came a new departure in the great French School of Violin playing, to be regretted in some respects, and praised in others. Solidity gave way to lightness and frivolity;
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