Milanollo, Teresa. (1827 - 1904)
Original CDV Photograph
Original full length photograph of one of the celebrated Italian violinist. Issued by Disderi of Paris. 6 x 10 cm, in very fine condition."The first of the important women players born in the 19th century was Teresa Milanollo, a pupil of Lafont, Habaneck, and de Bériot. She had a younger sister, Marie, whom she taught and who was said to have been a player of equal skill. As girls they toured Europe. Marie died in 1848 at age 16, and Teresa went on to attain a full-fledged career. Though she lived until 1902, she retired from the concert stage in 1857, at only 29, when she married a French army officer. According to a German critic writing in 1854: 'Milanollo is a great artist, and in many things so great that few can be compared with her - all the enormous difficulties achieved by Paganini with which he almost set the world on fire, are produced by this extraordinary girl with the greatest ease - her effects are pure and legitimate, though she can also call forth, in their turn, 'smiles and tears.' She does let the instrument compartively weep in the Elegy, but her playing never becomes too tearful; for this reason she plays Ernst's Elegy better than Ernst himself...'" (Henry Roth, "Violin Virtuosos," p. 310) (4819)
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