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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators. : With several wood engravings from photographs of the works of Stradiuarius, Guarnerius, Amati, and others, 1880
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1society, humble enough in 1738, would grow into a society possessing £80,000 in 1874, a sum which, however high sounding, is yet insufficient to permit the committee to dispense the full amount of good desired.
3Returning again to our subject, we find that in Festing's life-time there were several patrons of the art, the chief of whom was the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cumberland, and Earl Mornington. We may now glance at the period when Salomon came to England, in 1781. Too much stress can scarcely be laid upon the good effected by Salomon's talents for the progress of music, and more particularly in behalf of instrumental music. We are everlastingly indebted to this musician for the spirit and enterprise which he displayed, in bringing to England, at no trifling pecuniary risk, the immortal Haydn. Salomon having established a series of twenty concerts in the year, it occurred to him that to invite the famous musician to London, would aid his enterprise. He communicated with Haydn offering him fifty pounds for each concert. These terms were accepted, and Haydn set out for London in the year 1790, at the age of fifty-nine. He remained in England over a year, and composed the celebrated "Twelve Symphonies" known as the Salomon set. Salomon was one of the promoters of the Philharmonic Society, and led the orchestra at the first concert given by the Society in 1813. Enough has been said to show the nature of the part he took in the development of music in England. Enjoying the friendship of those who moved in the higher circles of society, where his polished manners and high attainments ever made
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