Complex sentence: He started as a solo violinist, studying at Leipzig and Paris, and also had considerable success as a conductor both in England and America; and it was at New York in 1867 that he met and married the famous operatic soprano Euphrosyne Parepa.
Split into simpler sentences: He started as a solo violinist, studying at Leipzig and Paris, and also had considerable success as a conductor both in England and America. In New York in 1867, he met and married the famous operatic soprano Euphrosyne Parepa.