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The appreciation accorded Miss Harriette Brower's admirable books on PIANO MASTERY has prompted the present volume of intimate _Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers_, in which a number of famous artists and instructors discuss esthetic and technical phases of the art of v...
"At the Imperial Music School in Vilna, and before, I worked at all the things every violinist studies--I think that I played almost everything. I did not work too hard, but I w...
4. Chapter 4"And there are so many different _nuances_, especially in _legato_. It is as a rule produced by a slurred bow; yet it may also be produced by other bowings. To secure a good _le...
11. Chapter 11"And what is mastery of the whole? Mastery of the whole, real violin mastery, I think, lies in the control of the interpretative problem, the power to awaken emotion by the use...
6. Chapter 6"I do not believe that any artist is truly a master of his instrument unless his control of it is an integral part of a whole. The musician is born--his medium of expression is...
10. Chapter 10"Perhaps it is because I belong to an older school, or it may be because I laid stress on technic because of its necessity as a means of expression--at any rate I worked hard at...
3. Chapter 3"For that matter," he continued, "every real artist has some mannerisms when playing, I imagine. Yet more than mannerisms are needed to impress an American audience. Life and co...
8. Chapter 8That David Mannes, the well-known violinist and conductor, so long director of the New York Music School Settlement, would be able to speak in an interesting and authoritative m...
9. Chapter 9"After three years' study I left Joachim and went to Paris. Liszt had given me letters of introduction to various French artists, among them Saint-Saëns. One evening I happened...
12. Chapter 12"Before the violin student can even begin to study, there are certain pre-teaching requisites which are necessary if the teacher is to be of any service to him. The violin is a...
13. Chapter 13"It is evident that the tempo of this study must be very much reduced in speed. The _return_ down-stroke as in No. 2: the _second_ down-stroke as in No. 7: the up-strokes as in...
7. Chapter 7"You see," he continued, "the secret of really beautiful violin playing lies in the bow. A Blondin crossing Niagara finds his wire hard and firm where he first steps on it. But...
2. Chapter 2Questioned as to how his various pupils reflected different phases of his teaching ideals, Professor Auer mentioned that he had long since given over passing final decisions on...
1. Chapter 1The appreciation accorded Miss Harriette Brower's admirable books on PIANO MASTERY has prompted the present volume of intimate _Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers_, in wh...
14. Chapter 14"I never play operatic transcriptions and never will. The music of the opera, no matter how fine, appears to me to have its proper place on the stage--it seems out of place on t...