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Chats to violin students on how to study the violin, 1895
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1CHAPTER V.
2Course of Study.
4IN concluding my series of observations addressed to those commencing to study the violin, I think a few words on the different books of important violin studies which are published may prove useful and interesting, although anything like an exhaustive list is quite impossible. Kayser's Studies are the easiest and simplest I can think of, and are of great value as a starting point. They are within the power of most students who have passed the elementary stage. They should be taken first undoubtedly.
6There is a great jump between them and Kreutzer's, which are much more advanced and are not graduated in any way, varying in difficulty considerably and being, in fact, an admirable adjunct to a Violin School, such as Spohr's, De Beriot's or David's. Rode's Studies, called Twenty-four Caprices (which are in all the major and minor keys) are very popular—and deservedly so. I should say of about similar difficulty to Kreutzer's and most useful.
8Fiorillo's are also a first-rate set of studies and an excellent preparation for the more modern style of violin playing, as exemplified by Wieniawski, Vieuxtemps,
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