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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1With Fesca we again come amongst the Violinists. He was born at Magdeburg, in 1789. His Quartetts are very pleasing compositions; they are chiefly "Solo Quartetts."
3The next Violinist claiming attention is the highly gifted Louis Spohr, the greatest composer for the Violin that ever lived, who combined in his own person high executive powers with a rare fecundity of classical composition. The Concertos of Spohr belong to an entirely different class from those of Viotti, Kreutzer, and others, inasmuch as Spohr's music is written so as not only to display the beauties of the instrument, but also to give the noblest specimens of its orchestration. His Duets for two Violins, his Tenor and Violin Duet and Quartetts, are all too well known to need more than passing mention.
5From Spohr has grown up a school of Violin-playing of a very distinctive character. Bernard Molique was endowed with great powers, both as a performer and a composer for his instrument. His Concertos are compositions of the highest order, and require for their rendering a finished artist.
7Joseph Mayseder was a Violinist of a different order to that of Spohr or Molique. His style was exceedingly brilliant. Mayseder may also be said to have created a school of his own, and owing to the circulation that his compositions obtained in England, his style was introduced among a great number of our countrymen. Kalliwoda wrote and played very much in the Mayseder manner. His Airs and Varia-
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