Violin Mastery: Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers

Eugène Ysaye
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1919, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
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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 violin playing in detail, their concept of what Violin Mastery means, and how it may be acquired. Only limitation of space has prevented the inclusion of numerous other deserving artists and teachers, yet practically all of the greatest masters of the violin now in this country are represented. That the lessons of their artistry and experience will be of direct benefit and value to every violin student and every lover of violin music may be accepted as a foregone conclusion.
Frederick H. Martens.
171 Orient Way, Rutherford N.J.
Who is there among contemporary masters of the violin whose name stands for more at the present time than that of the great Belgian artist, his extraordinary temperamental power as an interpreter enhanced by a hundred and one special gifts of tone and technic, gifts often alluded to by his admiring colleagues? For Ysaye is the greatest exponent of that wonderful Belgian school of violin playing which is rooted in his teachers Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski, and which as Ysaye himself says, during a period covering seventy years reigned supreme at the Conservatoire in Paris in the persons of Massart, Remi, Marsick, and others of its great interpreters.