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Thereafter in his tours of England he met with great success everywhere. In the artistic circles of London Mr. Bauer met a musician named Graham Moore, who gave him some idea upon the details of the technic of pianoforte playing, which Mr. Bauer had studied or rather "picked up" by himself, without any thought of ever abandoning his career as a violinist. Mr.
"Emil Lindbach, violinist to the Court of Bavaria, whose great success at the Spanish Court we were recently in a position to announce, has been honoured by the Queen of Spain, who has invested him with the Order of the Redeemer." A smile flitted across her lips.
He remembered them all; there was an excuse, of course, he reminded her, for his action in each and every case. But for him Mosenthal really a great violinist would have starved, little Perkins would have been sent to the reformatory, and the waiter to the dogs.
He is sometimes confounded with Thomas Baltzar, a violinist of Lubec, who, in 1656 introduced the practice of shifting in London, where he wholly eclipsed David Mell, a much admired clockmaker fiddler, although the latter, as a contemporary stoutly averred, "played sweeter, was a well-bred gentleman, and was not given to excessive drinking as Baltzar was."
I knew that her father had known him in Vienna, when the now great violinist was a mere lad, and I had heard that he forgot no one, so the sight gave me a merely momentary surprise. As I joined her, and we stepped out into the night together, I could not help wondering if Rodriguez had noticed her sensitive violin face, as I tried to get a look into her eyes.
The bishop's hand clenched itself so tightly that the knuckles whitened. 'About Jentham! he muttered in a low voice, and not looking at the chaplain; 'ay, ay, what about him? 'It seems, my lord, said Cargrim, watchful of his companion's face, 'that thirty years ago the man was a violinist in London and his professional name was Amaru. 'A violinist!
After learning, with the aid of his father, to play the violin, he took up the 'cello, and taught himself to play that instrument, and in later days he attributed his full tone on the violin to the power which his 'cello practice gave to his bow arm. Lipinski seems to have been an energetic and original man. He was in the habit of appearing at concerts both as violinist and 'cellist.
He peered through the curtains which separated the corridor from the auditorium and saw an empty seat on the opposite side of the gangway to that on which Lady Walbrook's box was situated; and when the interval was ended and the violinist began to play the first movement of Beethoven's Romance in G, he slipped into the seat, and sat so that he could see every movement that Eleanor made.
Salomon became an expert violinist at an early age, and travelled a good deal in Europe before he settled in England, which was in 1781, when he made his appearance at Covent Garden Theatre. He was criticised thus: "He does not play in the most graceful style, it must be confessed, but his tone and execution are such as cannot fail to secure him a number of admirers in the musical world."
"I want to be a violinist," he said slowly, after a pause during which the Duchess, with a little shriek, rescued her salad, which William had pounced upon. "A violinist!" "Hush! Please don't tell." "Of course I'll not tell, but " "Have you heard him play?" "Joyselle? Of course I have." "Well?" asked Tommy in quiet triumph. What more could anyone say? The old woman smiled sweetly at him.
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