[33] Duranowski, a talented Polish violinist. He entered the French army and was _aide-de-camp_ to a General. He lost his rank when released; returned to his violin, and was living at Strassburg up to 1834. [34] An engraving of it is in Naumann's "History of Music" (English Edition), p. 255. [35] Norwich. [36] In the "Bow Bell's Annual" for 1878 (?) CHAPTER IX. From the man we now turn to the artist. Schiller wrote: "The artist is the son of his age, but pity for him if he is its pupil or even its favourite." It has been shown how truly Paganini was the child of his age; the pity was that he became its pupil and its favourite; in consequence he failed to attain the supreme height where dwell the spirits of the greatest. But he was a great artist, in spite of his concessions to the public taste; and he held in reverence that which he found great in others. When in Vienna in 1828, exactly a year after the death of Beethoven, Paganini attended a concert, and heard a performance of the great master's Symphony, No. 7, in A. Profoundly moved by that sublime composition, he remained mute, his gaze fixed and mournful; suddenly the tears rolled from his eyes; his grief and emotion wrung from him the words: _E morto!_ Anders, who relates the incident, adds: "Never was the immortal author of _Fidelio_ more worthily extolled than by those tears, by that simple word. The day may come when some disciple, some friend of the Genoese artist, will say in his turn, seized with bitter sadness, _E morto!_" Strange, that Chorley should have employed the very words, in the premature obituary notice which has been already referred to. When in Paris, Paganini once visited the Institution for the Blind. He was so much struck with the beauty and purity of intonation that characterised the singing of the pupils, that he declared that never before had he an adequate notion of what harmony was.