Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday by Henry C. Lahee This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday Author: Henry C. Lahee Release Date: February 2, 2005 [EBook #14884] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FAMOUS VIOLINISTS *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chuck Greif, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. {1} OLE BULL {2} FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY By Henry C. Lahee I L L U S T R A T E D {3} Boston The Page Company Publishers 1 8 9 9 BY L.C. PAGE AND COMPANY (INCORPORATED) Ninth Impression, February, 1912 Tenth Impression, January, 1916 THE COLONIAL PRESS C.H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U.S.A. PREFACE. {4} In "Famous Violinists" the writer has endeavoured to follow the same general plan as in "Famous Singers," viz., to give a "bird's-eye view" of the most celebrated violinists from the earliest times to the present day rather than a detailed account of a very few. Necessarily, those who have been prominently before the public as performers are selected in preference to those who have been more celebrated as teachers.