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This is a fascinating subject. It’s been said that Sevcik had over 5,000 students during his long teaching career. He also traveled quite a lot, having taught for long periods in over ten different cities – Prague, Vienna, Pisek, Kharkiv, Salzburg, Kiev, London, Chicago, Boston, and New York. He could do that because he was fluent in seven languages. One of Sevcik’s most prominent pupils was none other than Erica Morini. It is interesting that among the very earliest female concert violinists, the majority were Italian – Maddalena Lombardini, Regina Strinasacchi, Teresa Milanollo, Camila Urso, Teresina Tua, and Gioconda De Vito. Was that because since Vivaldi’s days, Italian audiences had been accustomed to seeing girls playing violin (and other string instruments) in orchestras in orphanages, where Vivaldi (1678-1741) often taught? It has also been said that among Paganini’s (1782-1840) very few pupils, one was a girl – Catarina Calcagno. [I erroneously posted this same comment on the wrong article - my apologies if it caused some confusion. I would have deleted the wrongly-posted comment but I don't know how to do that.]