BLIND COMPOSER’S MISFORTUNES
A blind violinist and composer, who in his heyday performed before royalty and had his works played by leading conductors in Italy and England, was lately lying seriously ill and in very reduced circumstances in a house in London. The blind man was Signor Alfredo Nardi, and a devoted friend was attending to the old man’s wants, but there was little money in the house, and more was urgently needed in order that the blind musician might be given a fighting chance of recovery. He was stricken with rheumatic fever, and in his delirium he talked of iris loved violin and of past triumphs in Milan and Rome, where he was one-time court violinist to the King of Italy.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18286, 8 June 1929, Page 13
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122BLIND COMPOSER’S MISFORTUNES Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18286, 8 June 1929, Page 13
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