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I wonder if you'd care to see it?" Joyselle pursed up his lips. "I should, but I warn you, it is probably an imposture. Most cherished violins are that are in the hands of non-players." "No doubt, but Sarasate has played on this one, and he believed it to be genuine." "Aha! When may I come?" Carron named a near day, and then they went upstairs.
Field looked at her husband. "Why, Ed, he is playing Sarasate!" "That's what he is," he returned slangily, too much astonished to do more than gaze. Williams played on. There was a faint defect in the high notes, as if his fingers did not touch the strings properly, but his bow action showed cultivation and breadth of feeling.
Among noted exponents of the French school may be mentioned Alard and his pupil Sarasate, Dancla and Sauret. Among his famous pupils are Dr. Joseph Joachim, known as one of the musical giants of the nineteenth century; August Wilhelmj, the favorite of Wagner, and Carl Gaertner, who, with his violin has done so much to cultivate a taste for classical music in Philadelphia.
The modern 'Zabastes' must always be careful to impress his readers in the first place with his personal superiority to all men and all things, and the musical Oracle yonder will no doubt be clever enough to make his report of Sarasate in such a manner as to suggest the idea that he could play the violin much better himself, if he only cared to try!"
"Rag-time," and by this I refer to the peculiar rhythm and not to the bad music that Americans have come to class under this head, has a peculiar fascination for me. There is nothing objectionable about the unique rhythm, any more than there is anything iniquitous about the gypsy melodies that have made such excellent material for Brahms, Liszt and Sarasate.
At that moment a tumultuous clamor of applause broke out on all sides, applause that was joined in by the members of the orchestra as well as the audience, a figure emerged from a side door on the left and ascended the platform a slight, agile creature, with rough, dark hair and eager, passionate eyes no other than the hero of the occasion, Sarasate himself.
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."
In 1870 Marsick proceeded to Berlin, where, through the instrumentality of a government subvention, he was enabled to study under Joachim. After that he began to travel, and soon acquired a great reputation. He was said to equal, if not exceed, Sarasate in the wonderful celerity of his scales, and in lightness and certainty. His tone is not very full, but is sweet and clear.
While not technically the equal of one or two of his contemporaries, Wieniawski played with so much fire, and knew so well how to reach the heart of his audience by methods perfectly legitimate, that he must be ranked among the greatest violinists. Don Pablo Martin Meliton de Sarasate is a name known throughout Europe and America, if not throughout the civilised world.
Admitting, therefore, as I do, that the criticism of Delacroix was just, it is evident that, until we give to the modern student of painting a similar training to that which the early one had, we cannot expect him to attain the executive powers of the Italian renaissance, nor can we be sure that he appreciates the subtlety of the work of the masters, any more than the member of a village choir can understand the finesse of the highest order of musical execution, or its first violinist appreciate the touch of a Joachim or a Sarasate.
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