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The violin and its music, 1881
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1THE VIOLIN IN GERMANY.
3died in 1821. His compositions include four Concertos, and several Quartetts and Duetts, &c.; the latter are still admired.
5The sectional treatment of our subject having been mainly developed—musically speaking—in semi-chronologic progressions, abrupt topographic transitions, have necessarily been largely used in the modulation. Thus it is we have again to return to Vienna, the city above all others wherein the greatest achievements in modern music have been accomplished. Here the famous Hungarian, Joseph Boehm, passed fifty years; he whose name among Violinists is familiar, as the most successful teacher of the Violin of recent times. When it is remembered that he was the master of Ernst, Hellmesberger, and Joachim, his title to the first place among teachers can hardly be questioned. I have already referred to the influence of Rode, through Spohr, on German Violin playing. Spohr did his best to imitate the French artist; Boehm had a great advantage over Spohr, inasmuch as he received direct tuition from Rode, and, manifesting so much ability, caused his master to take unusual interest in the lessons. Boehm died in 1876, in his seventy-eighth year.
7Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst was born in 1814, in Moravia—that part of Europe already noticed—where James II.'s famous Chapel-master, Mr. Godfrey Finger, first saw the light; he who published in 1690, six Violin Solos. From Finger to
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