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Spanish virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate gives an exclusive interview to The Strad in his eye-wateringly bright yellow salon in Paris

FROM THE STRAD

MAY 1893

VOL 4 NO.37

Despite his gray hairs Sarasate is looking as young as ever. The long, straggling locks which used to hang in elfin trails of ebony black about his forehead, have given place to a mop of iron gray hair which brings into relief the handsome black eyes of the great Spanish violinist.

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