A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
Immediately an execution followed which was equally indescribable, in which were intermingled tones more than human, which seem to be wrung from the deepest anguish of a broken heart. After this, the audience were enraptured by a lively strain, in which you heard, commingled with the tones of the instrument, those of the voice, with the pizzicato of the guitar forming a compound of exquisite beauty." " Nothing can be more intense in feeling," said a contemporary critic, "than his conception and delivery of an adagio passage. His tone is, perhaps, not quite so full and round as that of a De Beriot or Baillot, for example; it is delicate rather than strong, but this delicacy was probably never possessed equally by another player." " There is no trick in his playing," writes another critic; "it is all fair scientific execution, opening to us a new order of sounds. . . . All his passages seem free and unpremeditated, as if conceived on the instant. One has no impression of their having cost him either forethought or labour. The word difficulty has no place in his vocabulary . . . etc." Paganini's lengthened tour through London and the provinces was everywhere attended with the same success, and brought him in a golden harvest.
Having heard a few critical remarks
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