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The violin and its music, 1885
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1Section VII.—The Violin in France.
3CHAPTER IV.
5BELGIUM and its Violinists next claim our notice. The important character of the part played by the people of Flanders in relation to music has been lightly touched in the second Section of my book, and its vast consequences to the development of the art in Italy, Germany, France, and England, referred to whilst following the history of our subject in those several countries.
7To draw a separating line between the Violinists of France and those of Belgium may appear needless. I am not, however, unmindful of the existence of similar ideas and pursuits among the two peoples at this period, which have necessarily resulted from contiguity and past and present political connection, but I am unable to believe this intercourse has wholly deprived a people small in number, compared with their great and powerful neighbour, of that difference of character, which I have before said, is as marked in the Fine Arts of a nation as its language. That the Belgians have been tutored in Violin-playing by means different from the
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