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The violin and its music, 1885
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1tive passages. Whilst a few of his compositions have been thought not unworthy of being publicly played by great artists, the larger number have furnished amateurs possessing but a moderate amount of executive ability with a store of graceful and pleasing music, well within their compass. De Bériot has published Ten Concertos; Twelve Airs with Variations, Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8 having long been the most popular. His Trémolo Variations, Op. 30, is equally famous. He has also published an important Violin School, in three parts, and many excellent Studies, among the latter the collection entitled, "Ecole Transcendante du Violon," Op. 123, containing many well-written exercises, wherein novel forms of passages are introduced. De Bériot died at Louvain in April, 1870.
3With M. Henri Vieuxtemps we enter that select circle of Violinists which numbers within it the greatest of modern times in relation to our subject. Not only does he there hold the proud position of being the most eminent representative of the Belgian School of Violinists, but is esteemed as possessing the qualities necessary for composing for the Violin as a solo instrument, equal to his executive abilities. Since the time when Louis Spohr manifested this rare double gift, I am not aware that any artist has achieved so much as Henri Vieuxtemps in the same direction. His compositions are very numerous, and of great variety. His Concertos take high rank as works admirably
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