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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
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1ne true head of all the "schools" in existence at the present time was Jean-Baptiste Viotti.
3The preceding table gives a clear exposition of the founders of the art of violin playing. Arcangelo Corelli, so to speak, was the father of our admirable school, and it was destiny's desire that this artist, a great master in every sense of the word, should be destined to transmit to future generations the essence of his message.
5The great heads of the schools of violin playing are the following:
7Arcangelo Corelli ………………………………………….. 1653—1713
8Gaetano Pugnani …………………………………………….. 1727—1803
9Giuseppe Tartini …………………………………………….. 1692—1770
10Jean-Baptiste Viotti ………………………………………… 1753—1824
11Pierre Rode ……………………………………………………. 1774—1830
12Rodolphe Kreutzer …………………………………………… 1766—1831
13Louis Massart ………………………………………………… 1811—1892
14Joseph Böhm ………………………………………………….. 1795—1867
15Pierre Baillot ………………………………………………….. 1741—1842
16Nicolò Paganini ………………………………………………. 1784—1848
17François Habeneck …………………………………………… 1781—1849
18Charles Dancla ………………………………………………… 1818—1907
19Delphin Alard …………………………………………………. 1815—1888
20Charles de Bériot …………………………………………….. 1802—1870
21Joseph Joachim ………………………………………………. 1831—1907
22Henri Léonard ………………………………………………… 1819—1890
23Ludwig Spohr …………………………………………………. 1784—1859
24Henri Wieniawski ……………………………………………. 1835—1880
25Ferdinand David ………………………………………………. 1810—1873
26Henri Vieuxtemps ……………………………………………. 1820—1881
28In these twenty masters there is concentrated the whole art of violin playing, and it is worth while giving an idea of the source of the development of the various schools.
30After Tartini, the true founder of the whole art of violin playing, comes Viotti. It is not too much to say that whenever we may have occasion to admire some violinist at the present time, we can go back to Viotti in order to discover the origin of his art. Let us take, for example, the violinistic predecessors of Ysaye:
32Viotti Kreutzer Massart Wieniawski Ysaye
34The violinistic antecedents of Kreisler may be presented as follows:
36Viotti Kreutzer Massart Kreisler
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