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Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday By: Henry Charles Lahee (1856-1953) |
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Famous Violinists of To day and Yesterday By Henry C. Lahee ILLUSTRATED Boston
The Page Company
Publishers 1899
L.C. PAGE AND COMPANY
(INCORPORATED) Ninth Impression, February, 1912
Tenth Impression, January, 1916 THE COLONIAL PRESS
C.H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U.S.A.
PREFACE.
In "Famous Violinists" the writer has endeavoured to follow the same
general plan as in "Famous Singers," viz., to give a "bird's eye view"
of the most celebrated violinists from the earliest times to the present
day rather than a detailed account of a very few. Necessarily, those who
have been prominently before the public as performers are selected in
preference to those who have been more celebrated as teachers. It was at first intended to arrange the chapters according to "schools,"
but it soon became evident that such a plan would lead to inextricable
confusion, and it was found best to follow the chronological order of
birth. The "Chronological Table" is compiled from the best existing
authorities, and is not an effort to bring together a large number of
names. If such were the desire, there would be no difficulty in filling
up a large volume with names of the violinists of good capabilities, who
are well known in their own cities. HENRY C. LAHEE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE ix I. INTRODUCTORY 11
II. 1650 TO 1750 30
III. 1750 TO 1800 60
IV. PAGANINI 104
V. 1800 TO 1830 135
VI. OLE BULL 172
VII. 1830 TO 1850 204
VIII. JOACHIM 244
IX. VIOLINISTS OF TO DAY 261
X. WOMEN AS VIOLINISTS 300
XI. FAMOUS QUARTETS 345
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
OLE BULL Frontispiece
ARCANGELO CORELLI 30
NICOLO PAGANINI 104
CAMILLO SIVORI 154
MARTIN PIERRE JOSEPH MARSICK 238
JOSEPH JOACHIM 244
EMIL SAURET 264
MAUD POWELL 340
FRANZ KNEISEL 362
FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO DAY AND YESTERDAY.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
There is no instrument of music made by the hands of man that holds such
a powerful sway over the emotions of every living thing capable of
hearing, as the violin. The singular powers of this beautiful instrument
have been eloquently eulogised by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the
following words: "Violins, too. The sweet old Amati! the divine Stradivari! played on by
ancient maestros until the bow hand lost its power, and the flying
fingers stiffened. Bequeathed to the passionate young enthusiast, who
made it whisper his hidden love, and cry his inarticulate longings, and
scream his untold agonies, and wail his monotonous despair. Passed from
his dying hand to the cold virtuoso, who let it slumber in its case for
a generation, till, when his hoard was broken up, it came forth once
more, and rode the stormy symphonies of royal orchestras, beneath the
rushing bow of their lord and leader. Into lonely prisons with
improvident artists; into convents from which arose, day and night, the
holy hymns with which its tones were blended; and back again to orgies,
in which it learned to howl and laugh as if a legion of devils were shut
up in it; then, again, to the gentle dilettante , who calmed it down
with easy melodies until it answered him softly as in the days of the
old maestros; and so given into our hands, its pores all full of music,
stained like the meerschaum through and through with the concentrated
hue and sweetness of all the harmonies which have kindled and faded on
its strings." Such, indeed, has been the history of many a noble instrument fashioned
years and years ago, in the days when violin playing did not hold the
same respect and admiration that it commands at the present time... Continue reading book >>
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