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The violin : solo playing, soloists and solos, 1905
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1CHAPTER VIII.
3LESSONS.
5LET me recommend all young students to take lessons from a soloist of good repute. There are many in London, Manchester and Glasgow. Few people really appreciate what a teacher does. Do not discredit your teacher's routine unless you are a full-grown genius, who will not condescend to be taught anything. Cultivate a diligent observance of everything artistic, not necessarily belonging to music. Knowledge on any subject is acceptable. Follow the maxims of nature. Do as your teacher suggests, for your obedience to his wishes will be particularly pleasing to him, since it consecrates to him your first success, and is destined to promote your career. It becomes an indisputable obligation to you to dedicate yourself, with your faculties and powers, to him, by directing all your actions to him and performing them with a pure intention of pleasing him, and of advancing the success of your aim—to be a soloist of the first rank. You will be happy if you faithfully comply with this obligation. Teachers would be wise to carefully instil this grand principle, both by word and example, into the minds of all their pupils.
7So pleasing is this early devotion to your teacher, that he showers such abundant stores of information gathered from experience, as to enable you to persevere to the end of your days along the path of success. Think of Joachim and David; there is an admirable and signal
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