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The violin and its music, 1885
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1some of his quartetts were published in 1759, and were received with much delight by the then small section of chamber music lovers in France.
3The subject of this notice is associated with an orchestral effect of an ingenious kind. At St. Roch, in 1760, at the performance of one of his masses, he employed two orchestras for a particular portion of his work, dividing them into wind and strings, concealing the former outside the church, whilst the latter accompanied sotto voce within. I have not dived into the history of invisible orchestras, but the idea of Gossec's evidently has precedence over that carried out at the Bayreuth Festival. It is needless here to follow Gossec through his important musical career; it is enough to know that he founded the Concert des Amateurs in 1770, that he gave new life to the Concert Spirituel three years later, and that he was associated with Cherubini in the foundation of the Paris Conservatoire in 1795. Gossec was born in 1733, at a village in Belgian Hainault, where his countrymen have raised a monument to his memory in the shape of a fountain, whereon is placed his bust; this worthy act was accomplished in 1877. He died in 1829, at Passy, at the age of ninety-six. At his funeral M. Fétis delivered an oration. The music of Gossec includes Twenty-Nine Symphonies, several Quartetts, Trios, and Violin Duetts.
5Among the early Belgian Violinists François Cupis is not unworthy of mention. He was born at
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