Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 638
ble performanceshe was quite enchanted. The player had drawn a wonderful wealth oftone from the instrument: sometimes it had sounded like tinkling water-drops, like rolling pearls, sometimes like birds twittering in chorus, andthen again it went swelling on like the wind through the fir trees.… … THE POET. performance; and difficult as the piece was, the bow seemed to glideeasily to and fro over the strings, and it looked as though every onemight do it. The violin seemed to sound of itself, and the bow to moveof itself—those two appeared to do everything ; and the audience forgotthe master…
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