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The violin and its music, 1885
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1these which Paganini and Lafont played, as already noticed. We have also nineteen Violin Concertos from his pen; that in E minor, No. 19, is regarded as the best. The Concertos of Kreutzer teem with passages of an instructive character, but fail to excite interest in the listener in consequence of a poverty of subject-matter. Fifteen Trios for two Violins and Violoncello; a Concertante Symphony for the same instruments; Fifteen String Quartetts, and a few Airs with variations, complete the list of Kreutzer's Violin music.
3In allotting to Pierre Bailliot the chief work attending the arrangement and composition of the New Violin Method, the committee expressly organised in reference to it performed an admirable service to all Violinists and at once secured complete success to the undertaking. Bailliot possessed, to a degree far beyond his fellow-workers, the requisites needed for such a task; for, besides being a competent Violinist and musician, he was a man of superior education, and attached to literary pursuits, thus enabling him to give expression to his thoughts through his pen, in a manner which neither Rode nor Kreutzer could have succeeded in doing; nor indeed has any Violinist, engaged on a similar work equalled him in this department down to the present time.
5Pierre Bailliot was born at Passy, near Paris, in 1771. His father at one time practised as a lawyer, but at the period of Pierre's birth, he opened a
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