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Scan 109
Voice and violin, 1898
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 89. See the scan on archive.org.
1air with variations, by Lafont, and I finished the concert with my variations called Le Streghe.
3"Lafont probably surpassed me in tone, but the applause which followed my efforts convinced me that I did not suffer by comparison."
5This appears to be the most modest, and at the same time the most truthful account of this affair, many singular versions of which were published in the French and Italian newspapers.
7It is well to note that on this memorable occasion both violinists played upon instruments by the same maker, Joseph Guarnerius, of Cremona. It has been long known that Paganini's violin was by that maker; indeed, it was his playing that brought forward the name of Guarnerius. It has been recently shown by Mr. John Day, the senior member of her Majesty's private band, and a distinguished pupil of De Bériot, that Lafont also played upon a violin by that maker.
9Mr. Day also informs us that the instrument on which Lafont played at Milan in 1816 was, after his death, purchased for the sum of £300 by J. B. Vuillaume, of Paris.
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