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The story of the violin, 1904
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1CHAPTER VII.
3DIDACTIC VIOLIN LITERATURE.
5Leaving now the concerto in its latest glory, we step back once more into the eighteenth century to gather up other—more modest—threads. With Geminiani (1740) and Leopold Mozart (1756) we had the first systematically-arranged violin methods, the one based on Corelli's teaching, the other on the traditions of the early Mannheim school. The study-material in both of them, however, was small—wholly insufficient for pupils' technical development, which became more and more urgent as the general standard of violin technique was being raised and difficulties in pieces increased. So next we find the, until then, barren field of didactic violin literature—the étude, the unaccompanied study for fingers and bowing and phrasing, cultivated. It has been perhaps the most liked, and therefore the most generally and happily cared for branch of composition for violinists. Unhampered by considerations of accompaniments, or by a rigid form in which only the more talented and scholarly could feel at home and at ease, the composer of études was able to follow his fancy, style, and technical predilection; and the result was that wealth of studies, études, caprices, etc., of every style, grade, and quality which in course of time has accumulated, and now forms the mountains which the
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