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The violin : solo playing, soloists and solos, 1905
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1CHAPTER XIX.
3CONCLUSION.
5ACCORD English artists and English compositions their proper place in the world of music. If a foreigner and one of your own countrymen are of equal merit, give them both their proper due in your praise or censure; don't underrate the Englishman because he is English; don't use that abominable phrase, "Oh! he plays well as an Englishman." Surely violin playing is too universal for such narrow-minded notions.
7Try to remember the different conceptions of artists.
8They are the best models.
9Listen attentively to superiors, and while doing so, make a resolve to equal their excellence, and if possible, to become greater.
10Think of the words of Goethe—
12"When works of the masters I look upon,
13 Then do I see what they have done
14But when I look upon my own
15 Then I perceive what I ought to have done."
17It is abusing one's intellect to rest satisfied with study.
18One's knowledge is on a downward path, or at least stationary, the moment that self-satisfaction sets in.
19One is always happy in furthering and cultivating a taste for classical music.
20Go to the best concerts, listening intently, and noting watchfully, every movement of the soloist.
22THE END.
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