The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-04-10

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effeminate instrument But the lady's
taste ran that way, and the great violin
ist lavished for time the whole force OF
his originality and skill upon the light
guitar. He wrote music for it, and imi-
tated it on the violin, but seldom touch
ed it in after life until quite the close,
although he was able to produce pro-
digious effect upon it when he chose.
These years Of country life and leisure,
during which he was delivered from the
pressure of crowds, the excitement Of
public performances, and, most of all,
the grinding anxieties of life, had the
effect Of bracing him up in health, and
prepared him for that reaction toward
intense study and exhausting toll which
left him without n rival-the first vio-
linist in the world.
About the age of 80, at which time
Paganini became free, never again to be
bound by any official appointment-the
great yiolinist had exhauste all the
possible resources of his instrument.
From this time Paganini, incredible rs
it may appear, seldom, if ever played,
except at concerts and rehearsals, and
not always even at rehearsals MIR.
Harris, who for II months acted as his
secretary, and seldom left him, never
saw him take his violin from its case.
At the hotels where he stopped the
sound of his instrument was never
heard. He used to say that he had
worked enough and had earned his
right to repose yet, without an effort,
he continued to overcome the superhu-
man difficulties which he himself had
created with the same unerring facility,
and ever watched by the eager and en-
vious eyes of critics and rivals In
vain! No false intonation, no note out
of tune, no failure was ever percepti-
BILE The Times critic, reviewing him
in London, some years before his death,
says his octaves were so true that they
sonndod like ono rota and tbo most
enormous intervals with triple notes,
harmonics and guitar effects seem to
have been invariably taken with the
same precision. In the words of crit
iooI In1oo u Eori. chic hand uoso
r,oonoh,icol comnosa which Divided tba
fncor.hoor1 with mothematicol nrocis-
;on " There 10 an onnsino story told
Of nm Enplishman, who followed him
from place TO plocr. 10 hear him plav
in private in fine home Of discovering
his secret Al jast. otter many vain
ATTEMPTS he managed to ret LODGED in
the next room to fine GREAT artist Took.
inc tbrouph the key-hole. ne beheld
him septed ON a sofa. about to take his
violin from its case-at lastl He raises
it to his chin-but the bowls left ia
the case The left hand merely meas
ures with its epormous wirv finoers a
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Yet every detail of rehearsal was an
anxiety to him. Although he gave
nrodipious number of concerts, he wns
ALWAYS unusually restless and abstracted
on the morning of the dov ON which he
bod to nerform. He would be idle for
hours on his sofo-or ot least he Seem
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