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The violin and its music, 1885
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 312. See the scan on archive.org.
1cherished melodies were racked to death on tortuous variations, manufactured in pizzicato, staccato, tremolando, and single and double harmonics, all of which is traceable to the influence Paganini exercised over Parisian Violinists. There was, however, much that was novel, graceful, and effective in Lafont's style of playing and composition, which, combined with the influence of the brilliant German School of Mayseder, Maurer, and Kalliwoda, had the effect of opening up a large and important field of composition for the Violin, wherein the greatest French, Belgian, and Polish artists have successfully laboured.
3Jacques Féréol Mazas was a pupil of Bailliot. As a Violinist and composer for his instrument he proved himself a worthy pupil of his great master. He was born in 1782, and died in 1849. His compositions include many of a highly instructive kind, and are valued as such at the present time; among these may be noticed his Violin School, followed by a treatise on harmonics; also a Méthod for the Tenor. German translations of both these works have been made. He published a Violin Concerto; a Fantasia on the Fourth String; "La Babillarde," a clever piece in the style of Paganini's "Moto Perpetuo;" and several Duetts and brilliant Quartetts.
5Lambert Joseph Massart was another eminent professor at the Conservatoire. He was born in 1801. From his master, Rodolphe Kreutzer, in
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