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Another very promising young English violinist was Thomas Linley, who exhibited great musical powers, and performed a concerto in public when eight years old. He was sent to Italy to study under Nardini, and through the mediation of that artist he became acquainted with Mozart, who was about the same age.
Nardini emerges from your alchemistic musical laboratory with so fresh and lively a quality of charm that starving fiddlers will greet him with the same pleasure with which the bee greets the first honeyed blossom of spring."
Maddalena Lombardi Sirmen, born about 1735, had an almost European reputation toward the end of the eighteenth century. She visited France and England about 1760-61, and was so good a player that she was looked upon almost as a rival of Nardini.
"You see," said the Marchesa, coming and standing close to Aaron, so that she just touched him, "you can know the terrace, just by these palm trees. And you are in the Nardini just across there, are you? On the top floor, you said?" "Yes, the top floor one of the middle windows, I think." "One that is always open now and the others are shut. I have noticed it, not connecting it with you."
In 1482 he did not occupy his house in the Ponte quarter, perhaps because he was having it enlarged. He spent more of his time in the palace which Stefano Nardini had finished in 1475 in the Parione quarter, which is now known as the Palazzo del Governo Vecchio.
On the other hand there are Tartini, Nardini, Paganini, Kreutzer, Dont and Rode they still live; and so do Ernst, Sarasate, Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski. It is men such as these who always will remain violin 'masters, just as 'violin mastery' is defined by what they have done."
Two rows of pages, gorgeously accoutred, and holding enormous torches, stood on each side his Royal Highness, and made him the prettiest courtesies imaginable, to the sound of an execrable band of music, though led by Nardini. The poor old archbishop, who looked very piteous and saint- like, struck up the Te Deum with a quavering voice, and the rest followed him full gallop.
It was a big old Florentine house, with many green shutters and wide eaves. There was a notice plate by the door "Pension Nardini." He came to a full stop. He stared at the notice-plate, stared at the glass door, and turning round, stared at the over-pathetic dead soldier on the arm of his over-heroic pistol-firing comrade; Mentana and the date! Aaron wondered what and where Mentana was.
Still, I think I may say I succeeded." And Mr. Nachéz showed me some letters from famous contemporaries who had made the acquaintance of this Nardini concerto in A major. One we cannot forbear quoting a letter in part. It was from Ottokar Sevčik.
Nardini, Bini, Manfredi, Ferrari, Graun, and Lahoussaye are among the most eminent, and were attached to him by bonds of most intimate friendship to his life's end. Tartini's contemporaries all agree in crediting him with those qualities which make a great player.
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