A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
with great success. In 1838 he went to Vienna and studied under Btfhm, and in 1843, when only twelve years of age, played at a concert of Madame Viardot's C in Leipzig, and in November of the same year he appeared at one of the famous Gewandhaus concerts in that city. In the following February, 1844, he came to England and made his debut on March 28,* at Drury Lane, for the benefit of Mr. Bunn, and on May 27th of that year appeared at the fifth Philharmonic Concert at the Hanover Square Rooms. The following November he again played at one of the Gewandhaus concerts at Leipzig. About this time his parents expressed a wish that their son should not then enter upon the career of a virtuose, and acting on the advise of David and of Mendelssohn, Joachim continued his studies at Leipzig. This course was quite in accordance with the views of the young musician in that he himself desired to be perfected in musical culture rather than in technique, and for several years he studied under David the great classical works for the violin, especially the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Spolir.
* Joachim celebrated the jubilee of his first appearance in London on March 28 of this year (1894) with unbounded enthusiasm.
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