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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
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1which is quite illogical. It would be preferable not to strive for ease and convenience in so marked a manner, and use a more natural fingering instead:
3Caprice No. 1 – Paganini (2)
5Further on we find:
7Caprice No. 1 – Paganini (3)
9Why increase the difficulties encountered fivefold? One should try, on the contrary, to lessen them. It is so easy to use the following fingering:
11Caprice No. 1 – Paganini (4)
13There are numerous other examples of this kind which prove that the violinist, instead of employing logic has made use of subterfuge. In Becker's edition of the Paganini Caprice No. 24, in the fourth variation, the fingering which is indicated can be used, it is true; but its application is quite impracticable, and I call attention to it because it is a fingering which might be termed, speaking as an electrician, a "poor conductor."
15Caprice No. 24 – Var. IV – Paganini (1)
17Though it is always preferable to select a position which is to be held for as long a time as possible as quickly as may be, it is better to avoid all danger of playing out of tune. Hence I recommend the following fingering, the more so that Gaviniés indicates the same tendency toward progression by "periods," that is to say, by the employ of the same fingering for ascending passages, or for descending ones, of the same design. The fingering which follows will be found simple and practical:
19Caprice No. 24 – Var. IV – Paganini (2)
21In an arrangement of the "Twenty-four Caprices" by Paganini which I have supplied with a second violin accompaniment, I have indicated the necessary
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