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The violin and its music, 1881
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1whose family he lived for a long period, he acquired that sound knowledge of Violin playing which admirably fitted him to take a leading position as a teacher. From Massart the famous Violinist Wieniawski obtained that knowledge of his art which helped greatly to make him one of the foremost artists of his time.
3The eminent Violinist, Prosper Sainton, was born at Boulogne in 1814. His love of music and the Violin in particular manifested itself—as it rarely fails to do where exceptional ability exists—at an early period: notwithstanding, however, this indication of the bent of his genius, he was sent to the College of Toulouse, to prepare for the study of the law. In the meantime occurred the commercial crisis of 1830, causing the loss of his father's fortune, which was embarked in extensive commercial transactions. His legal studies were relinquished, and his passion for music was given full scope to by sending him to pursue his musical studies at the Conservatoire, where he was at once placed in M. Habeneck's famous class. His progress was singularly rapid, obtaining the second prize in 1833, and the highest in the following year. He then visited the chief Continental cities. In 1844 M. Sainton appeared at the concerts of the Philharmonic Society. This was indeed a remarkable season in the annals of the famous Society. Herr Ernst, Signor Piatti, Joseph Joachim (then a boy of thirteen years), all appeared for the first time during this
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