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Updated: July 19, 2025
"This one," said he, "is a poor composer who would like to rise from song-writing to opera, and cannot. He blames the managers, music-sellers, everybody, in fact, but himself, and he has no worse enemy. You can see what a florid complexion, what self-conceit, how little firmness in his features! he is made to write ballads.
Now there was one of the streets which was chiefly occupied by music-sellers and Italian singers for them foreigners always herd together and this tune, 'which the old cow died of, as the saying is, used to be their horror, and out came the halfpence to send him away.
He observed that every aim of those who had brought her up had been to get her away mentally as far as possible from her natural and individual life as an inhabitant of a peculiar island: to make her an exact copy of tens of thousands of other people, in whose circumstances there was nothing special, distinctive, or picturesque; to teach her to forget all the experiences of her ancestors; to drown the local ballads by songs purchased at the Budmouth fashionable music-sellers', and the local vocabulary by a governess-tongue of no country at all.
Paganini made a great fortune by the exercise of his art, and in 1834 purchased, among other property in his native country, a charming country seat called Villa Gajona, near Parma. Here he spent two years in comparative quiet, though still continuing to give concerts. At this period and for some time previous many music-sellers had striven to buy the copyright of his works.
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