A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
we repeat, an organ, to give articulation to which is a part of his nature. Those who have not heard him can form no idea of what he is. It was not believed that science could go so far. It at once confounds the heart and the understanding, the imagination is bewildered. Any one who has not experienced the impressions he produces would not conceive such an effect to be possible—when they have been experienced, it is still incredible, so much stronger are the effects than the production of mere pleasure. All the great violinists have a style exclusively their own—they are never unlike themselves. Paganini is never Paganini; he is by turns pleasure, despair or rage, he speaks, he weeps, he sings, sounds are to him only the means of expression, and the emotions which he raises with so much energy, he destroys in an instant by the unexpected contrast of a harshness somewhat revolting from the suddenness with which it interrupts and changes the sensation. But he does not suffer this approach to discontent to endure; and at the moment when one would be tempted to complain, he again makes himself master of the heart—he binds it with a golden chain, and seems to draw it to him with an irresistible power. Paganini is not one of those ordinary artists who labour to attain
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