Books › Modern violin culture in America, 1916 › scan 23
Scan 23
Modern violin culture in America, 1916
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1MASTER PIANISTS AND COMPOSERS—Cont’d.
3This lengthy review of worth-while modern violin music, would be incomplete without the mention of three exceedingly fine original numbers by Louis Victor Saar, which are exquisite examples of modern violin writing. These numbers include the well-known Chanson d’Amour (Op. 60, No. 2), a breezy little Gondoliera (Boat Song, Op. 52, No. 4) and an exceptionally effective Romance Melodique (Op. 78). And furthermore, some of his best contributions to the violin’s literature are to be found in Saar’s concert transcriptions of a Menuet and Gigue by Mozart as well as a Caprice Humoresque, Caprice-Reverie and March-Caprice, based on three of Rudolph Kreutzer’s famous forty-two studies.
5LOUIS VICTOR SAAR
7In Conclusion
9The production of such a large array of artistic modern works for the violin, as mentioned in the foregoing pages, should serve as a practical demonstration of the creative abilities of contemporary players, teachers and composers now in America. It should also prove that a vast amount of development is going on right now, and that if we will only look about and interest ourselves in the efforts, aims and ambitions of our living artists, we will be forced to admit that they are accomplishing a vast amount of serious, artistic work which is in every way as dignified, as thorough, and as worthy of success as anything produced by the writers of former generations.
11In my own estimation, additional interest attaches to the compositions and arrangements I have mentioned owing to the fact that almost all have been conceived, written, performed and published in the United States, a splendid tribute, not only to the genius of the artists and enterprise of the publisher, but to the advanced state of violin culture prevalent at the present time in America.
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.