But go a little further, and closer study will prove that some of the world's greatest Virtuosos in love could neither make nor carry a tune; and that, by corollary, some of the greatest tunesters in the world were tyros, ignoramuses, or heretics in that old lovers' arithmetic which begins: 1 plus 1 equals 1. If you care to watch the cohort of musicians, good, bad, and worse, that I shall have to deploy before you, you shall see almost every sort and condition of love and lover that humanity can include.
"The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1"
Rupert Hughes
An exception to the above will be noted in the case of Franz Liszt; but, aside from the fact that this greatest of piano-forte Virtuosos, though living, has practically retired from the held of art, to omit him from such a volume as this would be an unpardonable omission.
"Great Violinists And Pianists"
George T. Ferris
So it may be said that Pugnani united in himself the schools of Corelli and Tartini, and was thus admirably fitted to be the instructor of that grand player, who was the first in date of the violin Virtuosos of modern times, Viotti.
"Great Violinists And Pianists"
George T. Ferris