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The violin and its music, 1885
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1few years later. Upon his return to Paris, he took the post of leader at the Italian Opera, succeeding Rode, who had gone to Russia. During this period, namely, 1801 to 1825, Kreutzer was occupied in Paris composing Operas, Violin Concertos, and the famous Forty Studies, besides attending his class at the Conservatoire, and leading the Opera Orchestra. In 1825 he ceased playing publicly, in consequence of an accident which deprived him of the use of his arm; he died at Geneva in 1831. His greatest work in connection with the Violin is beyond all question the Forty Studies. No work of the kind has passed through so many editions. Though its age is more than three-score years and ten, it is as fresh and vigorous as when it came into the Fiddling world. What Cramer's Studies have been and are likely to be to the Pianist, Kreutzer's Studies have been and will be to Violinists. There hardly appears more chance of a Violin student dispensing with his Kreutzer, than his mathematical brother shelving his Euclid. These are the only notable Violin Studies, with the exception of Paganini's, to which a Pianoforte accompaniment has been added.*
3Another important work is found in the Concertante Symphonies for two Violins: it was one of
5* Kreutzer's Studies with accompaniment, published by Hofmeister, Leipzig. Paganini's Studies with accompaniment for Piano, by J. L. Hatton, published by Hart & Son, London; and the David edition published by Breitkopf and Härtel.
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