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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1violent emotion, I instantly seized my Violin, in the hope of being able to catch some part of the ravishing melody which I had just heard, but all in vain. The piece which I composed according to my scattered recollection is, it is true, the best of my works. I have called it the 'Sonata del Diavolo,' but it is so far inferior to the one I heard in my dream, that I should have dashed my Violin into a thousand pieces, and given up music for ever, had it been possible to deprive myself of the enjoyments which I derive from it."
3In the "Reminiscences of Michael Kelly" we are told that in the year 1779 Kelly was at Florence, and that he is present at a concert given at the residence of Lord
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