Scan 47
Chats to violin students on how to study the violin, 1895
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 31. See the scan on archive.org.
1perfect intonation on the violin than to play a passage of consecutive octaves correctly. Each note needs a slight change in the position of the hand, and the relative distance of the first and fourth fingers is reduced with each note going up the scale, vice versa coming down. Much time and practice should be given to get the intonation correct. In a passage of a succession of octaves, the fingers pressing the notes should not be raised from the string, but moved on together.
3My experience after forty years of study is that the combinations and capabilities of the violin are endless, that a life time is not long enough to fathom half that can be done on and with the instrument. To those who have time and opportunity to study it con amore, life must be ideal, but when one's life is necessarily filled with professional engagements and teaching, such study as that becomes impossible.
5Public appearances are always very trying, and the more important the position the artist holds, the more anxious the ordeal. I remember when quite a young man I was to play Molique's Third Concerto at a concert of the Musical Society of London. Vieuxtemps, who heard this, expressed his opinion "that those concertos were unplayable." To my great consternation just as I walked on the platform to commence my solo, he entered the hall and sat down in the front row just below me. This added greatly to my anxiety on what was a very important occasion. Fortunately I got through satisfactorily and proved Vieuxtemps' remark
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