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of the "Royal Society of
Musicians"--Handel legacy to the Royal Society--Early musical
proclivities of the Earl of Mornington--Salomon and the Philharmonic;
negociations with Haydn--Influence of Salomon on the development of
musical taste in England--The Cramers--Nicholas Mori and
others--Dando--Henry Blagrove, and his "Concerti da Camera"--Mr.
Chappell and his "Monday Popular Concerts"--Henry C. Cooper, and
the "Quartett Association"--M. Sainton, Hill, Piatti; John Carrodus,
Herr Molique, and the Brothers Holmes--Progress of the Violin in
Germany: Graun and Benda; John Sebastian Bach as Violinist and
composer; Herr Joachim--Handel, influence of his compositions on the
progress of the Violin--Haydn, and his Symphonies and Quartetts; A
lady's ideal thereof--Mozart, and his "Method" for the Violin; his early
attachment to the instrument--Schubert, Beethoven, Mendelssohn,
Fesca, and their influence--Louis Spohr and his works--Bernard
Molique--Joseph Mayseder--Kalliwoda--Herr Ernst, Joachim and
Strauss, with Herr Wilhelmj, and their concerts . . . . . . . . . . . . 375-409
SECTION XV.--ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANEA
CONNECTED WITH THE VIOLIN.
Hudibras and the Champion Crowdero--George Herbert's references to
Music--Christopher Simpson's Trinity in Unity--Shakespeare's Sonnet
VIII.--Violins from a medical point of view--"A Musician"--Origin of
Tartini's "Sonato del Diavolo"--Dr. Johnson and the Violin--Dr.
Johnson on the Difficulty of Playing the Violin--Dr. Johnson's Epitaph
on Phillips, the Welsh Violinist--Dr. Johnson's Knowledge of
Music--Dr. Johnson on Fiddling and Freewill--Haydn in London: a
"Sweet Stradivari;" Letters of the Rev. Thomas
Twining--Gainsborough as a musician--Garrick and Cervetto--The
King and the Player--Sir Walter Scott on Music and Fiddles; the Duke
of Hamilton's passion for the Violin--A Cinderella Violoncello--A
Stolen "Strad"--The Missing Scroll--Another Wandering Scroll--A
Montagnana Instrument shot through the body--Fiddle Marks and the
Credulous Dabblers--"Guarneri" at a Discount--Dragonetti's Gasparo:
Letter thereon by Mr. Samuel Appleby--The Betts Stradivari: Letter by
the late Charles Reade--Leigh Hunt on Paganini--Thackeray on

Orchestral Music--Spohr and his Guarneri--Spohr and the
Collector--The Ettrick Shepherd and the Violin--The Fiddle Trade:
"Old Borax" and "Michael Schnapps," the Fiddle-ogre--The Prince and
the "Fugal Vortex"--Sale of Cremonese Instruments at Milan in
1790--An Indefatigable Violinist--A Wish--Living
Stradivaris--Pleasures of Imagination--A Royal Amateur--Pius IX. and
the Musician--Ole Bull and Fiddle Varnish--Letter from Tartini on the
Treatment of the Violin . 410-507
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FRONTISPIECE--Paganini's "Giuseppe Guarneri." 1743.
PLATE FACING PAGE I. Stradivari Viola. 1672 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16
II. Jacobus Stainer. 1669 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu Niccolo Amati.
Grand Pattern. 1641 . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
III. Violoncello by Antonio Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
IV. Antonio Stradivari. 1734 The Gillott "Strad." 1715 Giuseppe
Guarneri del Gesu. 1734 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
V. Carlo Bergonzi Violoncello. Grand Pattern . . . . . . . . . 84
VI. J. B. Guadagnini Storioni. 1797 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
VII. Specimens of Scrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
VIII. Giuseppe Guarneri. 1742 Antonio Stradivari. 1711 Antonio
Stradivari. 1703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
IX. Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1737 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

X. Domenico Montagnana Violoncello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
XI. Antonio Stradivari. Tenor. 1690 Antonio Stradivari.
1734 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
XII. Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1738 The "Dolphin" Strad. 1714
Antonio Stradivari. 1718 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
XIII. Antonio Stradivari. 1702 Antonio Stradivari. 1722 Antonio
Stradivari. 1703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
XIV. Stradivari Violoncello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
XV. Chapel of the Rosary, Cremona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
XVI. Antonio Stradivari. 1708 Antonio Stradivari. 1736 Giuseppe
Guarneri del Gesu. 1735 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
XVII. The "Betts" Stradivari. 1704 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
XVIII. Giuseppe Guarneri del