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The violin and its music, 1885
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1know that I could better describe this artist than by naming him the Belgian Ernst. Passion and sentiment he possessed to a degree surpassing that attained by any Violinist of his time in his own school. The instruction he received from François Snel was valuable to him, but his subsequent lessons at the Conservatoire, from Kreutzer, perfected his style. Artot died at the early age of thirty; had his life been spared, he promised to have become one of the greatest of modern players. He died in 1845. His compositions consist of several Fantasias of an elegant character. Among those unpublished, reference is made to several Quartetts, and a Pianoforte Quintett.
3François Hubert Prume was born in a small town in the Province of Liége. He became a scholar in M. Habeneck's class at the Conservatoire, where he highly distinguished himself. Prume was another clever artist whose career was a brief one, dying in his thirty-third year, in 1849. His best known Violin composition is that entitled "La Mélancolie," so frequently played by Sivori during the past thirty years. He also published Six Grand Studies, Op. 2; a Concertino; and a Polonaise.
5The eminent Belgian Violinist, Charles Auguste De Bériot, was born at Louvain in 1802. Few composers for the leading instrument have exercised greater influence than De Bériot in his particular field of writing. His Concertos, Fantasias, and Airs with variations, teem with graceful and effec-
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