A celebrated violinist told me that, at one period of his life, he lived in a house that fairly swarmed with rats.
Then the famous violinist rented the drawing-room floor of the Kirilovs' little house in Clapham, while the Kirilovs, humble folk, got on as best they could.
He caught at the name of the world-famous violinistand bent eagerly forward in great excitement.
The actual case from which this fiction story was borrowed involved a man, a wife, and the wife's clandestine violinist lover.
At that sight I was unable to keep a sober face; I burst into a roar of laughter, which increased in volume when I saw that the little violinist ran faster than ever on seeing me at the window.
To add to my annoyance, a little violinist had stopped under our window; he had played the same tune ever since we had been there, although I had shouted to him that I would give him nothing.
At a concert at Tarnworth--for once or twice a year there were good concerts at the little town--he had heard a celebrated violinist play, and it seemed to Basil as if a new world had opened to him.
When the air was finished, for it died off in a few plaintive notes, as if the violinisthad entirely forgotten the dancers, Mary arose and crept softly toward the musician, till she could obtain a view of his face.
In him, Maurice recognised the violinist of the concert, but he, too, was taller than he had believed, and much younger.
No one was in sight, and she was about to turn away, when, from where he was watching in a neighbouring doorway, Maurice saw the red-haired violinist come swiftly round the corner.
A man named Schilsky, whom it was no exaggeration to call their finest, very finest violinist was to play Vieuxtemps' Concerto in D.
Meanwhile, at the far end of the table, Boehmer and a Russian violinist still harped upon the original string.
The small crowd lingered in order to see, at close quarters, the violinist who had played there that morning.
And there was still another work of importance published at Amsterdam, very early in the eighteenth century, by the famous violinist and composer G.
The voice cannot be treated as the pianist or violinist does his fingers.
Sembrich, who was both pianist and violinist before becoming known as a singer.
It must be as necessary for a singer who aspires to fill a high place in this field of artistic endeavor, to live amid congenial surroundings, as for a pianist, violinist or composer to be environed by musical influences.
Well, dear lady, this boy of yours will be a great violinist if he is willing to work, and work, and work.
And if you're going to be an American violinist you'll have to look it--with a foreign finish.
American violinist who called on Max Reger, to tell him how much he (the American) appreciated his music.
I remember another similar though far less boisterous feast, on the occasion of a visit paid us by the famous violinist Vieux- temps, an old schoolfellow of Kietz's.
He was a young man, still in his early twenties, and was a violinist in the orchestra.
This was Karl Lipinsky, a celebrated violinist in his day, who had for many years led the Dresden orchestra.
Not receiving further orders, he occupies his time by sniffing at the flowers and making remarks sotto voce to his companion violinist on the botanical beauties of the flora.
Leading violinist exhibits bouquet, and appeals in dumb show to conductor.
The money had tempted him, as he had lately heard of a broken-down violinist who had nothing but the workhouse before him, and he had infinite pity for failure and poverty.
A violinist is coming and perhaps you will like to play too afterwards?
The spiritual principle in man is no more to be confounded with the brain which it employs as its instrument, than the sculptor with his mallet and chisel, or the violinist with his Stradivarius.
The violinist arose and extended his hand wearily.
Mr. Wallace and the violinist soon after joined old Sanders, fresh cigars were lighted and regrets most earnestly expressed by the violinist for Mildred's "sick headache.
The father and the violinist went to the study, leaving the daughter and old Sanders in the drawing-room.
The violinist examined the instrument with the practised eye of an expert, and turning to Satan said: "The four strings are beautifully white and transparent, but this one is black and odd looking.
The announcement of the reappearance of the Tuscan contained a line to the effect that the violinist would play for the first time his new suite--a meditation on the emotions.
The violinist made a deep impression on those fortunate enough to be near him during the evening.
As the music grew louder and the orchestra approached the peroration of the preface of the coming solo, the violinist raised his head slowly.
When the violinist appeared for his solo, he quietly acknowledged the cordial reception of the audience, and immediately proceeded with the business of the evening.
As the violinist concluded his performance an oppressive silence pervaded the house, then the audience, wild with excitement, burst into thunders of applause.
His marvelous success as violinist in the leading capitals of Europe, together with many brilliant contributions to the literature of his instrument, had long been favorably commented on by the critics of the old world.
Perkins, and then with the advance-agent instinct strong within him he selected a clipping, and touching the violinist on the shoulder: "Let me read this one to you.
I have heard of you before," knowingly spoke the violinist nodding his head sadly.
He is the violinist who has created such a sensation here, Angelo Diotti.
There was not a sign of Musa; the disappearance of the violinist was disquieting; and yet it made her glad--so much so that she laughed aloud.
She could not understand why it should be necessary for a violinist to play and to succeed at this house before he could capture Paris.
For, though he was still the greatest violinist in Paris, and perhaps in the world, he could not yet prove this profound truth by the only demonstration which the world accepts.
Mr. Musa is perhaps the greatest violinist in Paris--or in Europe.
Moreover it had, for that night, an article of religious faith, to wit, that Musa was the greatest violinist that had ever lived or ever could live, and it was determined to prove this article of faith by sheer force of hands and feet.
Musa is supposed to be the greatest violinist in Paris--perhaps in the world," Tommy whispered casually to Audrey.
No one said: "It is Musa, the greatest violinist in Paris and perhaps in Europe.
Wolfgang did not particularly enjoy the violin although his father exhorted him to practice and told him that he could be the greatest violinist in Europe.
Idomeneo At the Archbishop's table he sat between the castrato Ceccarelli and the violinist Brunetti.
Mozart did go to the theater in Berlin where he heard his own Entführung, was applauded by the audience, and audibly scolded a blunderingviolinist in the orchestra!
Five years later he became fourthviolinist in the court orchestra of the archbishop, but he maintained his close family connections with Augsburg and later encouraged his son not to relax these ties.
They are the best known of Mozart's concertos for that instrument and were conceived, in the main, for the violinist Brunetti of the court orchestra.
A successful newspaper photographer, a very famous violinist, not to speak of the lady violinist and her friend.
It was unthinkable that any skilled violinist would undertake such a journey only that he might fling his glorious music to the empty air about the Greenstone Ridge.
To the slim girl who but the moment before had thought of this marvelous violinist as a phantom, the whole thing seemed unreal.
With the light of the fire playing upon her animated features, she told her story so convincingly that even Florence was more than half convinced that Greenstone Ridge truly was haunted by the ghost of some violinist of enduring fame.
The fair violinist is out of tune, it seems," he said, in the course of an afternoon stroll with the new charmer.
One or two preliminary tuning notes were sounded, and then the violinistbegan to play.
He continued to compose, however, and a turning point came when he had the chance to undertake a tour with the young Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi.
Fuller-Maitland points out the Hungarian flavor of this finale, "as if a dedication to the great Hungarian violinistwere conveyed in it.
She longed to get behind the violinist and the orchestra and even the composer himself, and goad them into some tenseness of emotion.
I expected that violinist to play cadenzas with his violin held in the air above his head.
But they had given positively the first performance of Edith's new quartette, and at the end the violinist had ceremoniously crowned her with a wreath of laurels which he had picked from the shrubbery before dinner.
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