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Scan 247
The violin and its music, 1885
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1Stuttgart, and challenges Nardini. It is needless to add, that according to his biographers, he defeats him. Poor Nardini, thus stripped of the honours of a life-time, quits the service of his estimable patron, and retires to Italy. That any Violinist, acquainted with the compositions of Nardini, and accepting the judgment of his contemporaries with regard to his executive abilities, could realize his discomfiture as above related, is, in my humble judgment, impossible.
3Continuing the notice of Lolli, we are told he visited St. Petersburg, Paris, and Madrid, and came to London in the year 1785, where, Burney says, "by a caprice in his conduct equal to his performance, he was seldom heard, and then, so eccentric was his style of composition and execution, that he was regarded as a madman by most of his hearers; yet I am convinced that in his lucid intervals he was, in a serious style, a very great, expressive, and admirable performer. In his freaks, nothing can be imagined so wild, difficult, grotesque, and even ridiculous as his compositions and performance."
5The compositions of Mestrino and Locatelli have been cited as having furnished Paganini with effects which that extraordinary Violinist developed so wondrously: undoubtedly this was the case, but the compositions of Lolli should be associated with them as having suggested much in the same direction; indeed, it may be said that with Lolli began the virtuosi of the type of which Paganini became the
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