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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1taining accounts the reader can turn for information. It is sufficient to mention that Paganini carried the marvellous in Violin playing as far as seems possible. The number of his imitators has been enormous, and many of them, withal, so barbarous as to render anything savouring of "à la Paganini" contemptible. The compositions of Paganini are no longer Paganini's when played by others. He, above all Violinists that ever lived, possessed an individuality in his style of playing which has, hitherto, defied decent imitation.
3From Paganini to his pupil, Camillo Sivori, is the next step in my notice. The artistic career of Sivori has been a glorious one. The elegance of his style is remarkable.
5In Bazzini we find an artist of a high order, both as a composer for his instrument, and executant.
7Having endeavoured to lightly sketch the history of Italian performers, and of Italian music bearing on the instrument, to the present time, it may not be inappropriate in this place to refer to the course of events touching the Violin in France. As the influence of Viotti resulted in a remodelling of the French style of playing, our survey will make it necessary to go back the greater part of a century, and to take up the point where we parted company with Lully.
9Jean Marie Lecler, the pupil of Somis, is here the first Violinist deserving of mention. He was born at Lyons in 1697. In 1729 he visited Paris,
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