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After remaining three years in Lüneburg, Bach secured a post as violinist in the private band of Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar; but this was only to fill the time till he could find a place to play the instrument he so loved. An opportunity soon came. The old Thuringian town Arnstadt had a new church and a fine new organ.
The singer, violinist, and other executants of music, if they really love music, can to almost the full extent of such love enjoy performing to themselves alone as much as before a crowd.
The influence of the artist's personality in his art finds a most striking exemplification in the case of Fritz Kreisler. Some time before the writer called on the famous violinist to get at first hand some of his opinions with regard to his art, he had already met him under particularly interesting circumstances.
Music I have just come back from hearing a great violinist, who played, with three other professors, in two quartettes, Mozart and Beethoven.
"Then why did you take me last week to see that famous violinist?" she demanded. "A mistake, my dear. I didn't know he was a violinist. You see, he was flourishing his bow and I thought he was a juggler!" "You're incorrigible!" laughed Virginia. "Musical comedy and vaudeville for mine," he exclaimed. "I've joined the ranks of the 'tired business men, like your husband." Virginia shook her head.
After many privations in Paris Mr. Bauer, unable to secure engagements as a violinist, went on a tour of Russia as an accompanist of a singer. In some of the smaller towns Bauer played an occasional piano solo. Returning to Paris, he found that he was still unable to secure engagements as a violinist.
"Spiccato is a very different matter from staccato: violinists as a rule use the middle of the bow for spiccato: I use the upper third of the bow, and thus get most satisfactory results, in no matter what tempo. This question as to what portion of the bow to use for spiccato each violinist must decide for himself, however, through experiment.
No; it's too fussy!" "Why don't they play something with a tune to it? I wouldn't give a row of pins for music without any air at all." "Sh-h-h-h, mamma. There isn't much tune to classical music." "I wish the first violinist would play a solo. 'Warum, like last time. I've some baby ribbon just like that, Lilly. I picked it up on sale in Gentle's basement bins " "Mamma, don't stare so."
The party, or concert, was a very brilliant affair. Patti sang to us, and a tenor, and a violinist played for us. How we two Americans came to be in so favored a position I do not know; all I do know is that we were shown to our places, and found them very agreeable ones. In the same row of seats was the Prince of Wales, two chairs off from A 's seat.
Many of the audience left their seats and made for the door, but the violinist stood unmoved until the alarm was subdued and the audience returned to their seats, when she played the interrupted movement through from the beginning. In 1879 she made a tour to Australia, and again in 1894.
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