A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
elegant positions; since his whole organization is identified with his instrument, they are the spontaneous effect of the sentiment which inspires him. Were one to hear without seeing him, his gesture might be imagined from the expression of the music. Notwithstanding the continual impulse which governs him, there are characteristics in his manner which are sufficiently marked to allow description. His bow, which he holds in a more perpendicular direction than usual is easily drawn, its motion is free, neat, and majestic, and the boldness with which he uses it seems as it were to double its length. His manner is so decidedly facile and graceful that he pleases the eye while he charms the ear. All the notes of his scale are of the same quality, pure, full, brilliant, and of a richness wonderfully adapted to the effects which they are intended to produce. They are pearls which detach or which unite themselves to form enchanted wreaths. In the fertile and brilliant variety of his playing, his forte is most extraordinary and unequalled, and opposed to the lightest and softest piano. His adagio possesses a grace—a softness of expression, which penetrates the heart. His allegro has now a richness of gaiety, an abandon, a rapturous enthusiasm which carries away the hearer ; now it expresses
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