It is amazing that there two great violin players which could not be found in the books.Claudio Jose Domingo Brindis de Salas,(1852-1911),'The Black Paganini', and Jose Sylvestre White Laffitte,(1836-1918),this was even a professor at the French Conservatore.Shame on this people!.

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the violinist that you mention really can't be found in books, HeHe. No wonder I just heard about them for the first time.

Me too. I wonder who they are ? But I have heard The Black Pagani before.............

Yes. I have log in this forum just to talk about this. I am a Cuban writer and I am investigating the life and times of Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas. He was born in Havana on August 4th, 1852 and died in Buenos Aires on June 2nd, 1911. He studied also in the French Conservatory and lived in Germany from 1880 to 1900. He was made a baron by the emperor and have some european and american orders. But above all he was a great musician.

You can find him by now in Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. (It is said there that he composed only a Barcarola, but this is not true. The rest is more or less correct.)

As for José White, there is a kind of biography written by Sabine Faivre d'Arcier: "José White y su tiempo" (I have the Cuban edition and I think there is none in French or English).

I want to post an unknown portrait of Brindis de Salas here, but it seems you can only post an image from an url and the portrait is in my computer.