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The Violin Music Of Beethoven, 1902
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1place, and show undue levity! Farmyard effects, imitations of tuning up; yes, these he understands, but the refined playfulness of the great masters touches him not; his jests must be duly labelled. Yet it is the privilege of all really great music to traverse the whole range of human emotion, and no previous composer understood this so well as Beethoven.
3Technically, this sonata is about the most suitable for students to begin their study of Beethoven with. Smooth legato playing, neatness and delicacy in the staccato passages, are the qualities requisite for the proper rendering of it, rather than power and vigour of style. As a preparation for the Beethoven sonatas generally, it may be said here that nothing better than Kreutzer's celebrated 40 studies will be found, to which might be added those of Fiorillo and Rode for the mastery of the different positions. Kreutzer especially accustoms the player to take some characteristic violin figure through various modulations, and in positions or on degrees of the scale which cause the original idea to become technically more difficult and awkward to render with purity and certainty of intonation. Fiorillo imparts flexibility of bowing, rather than the firmness of grip one acquires from Kreutzer; whilst Rode takes the player over the various positions and in all the keys in such a way that his technique cannot fail to be improved. Some of the Mozart sonatas for piano and violin should be studied before those of Beethoven, for both technical and historical reasons, and to the young student who has learnt some of Mozart's, this first one of Beethoven's will seem but a continuation of the older master rather than a composition in a style entirely new to him.
5The second sonata of Op. 12, in A major, quite as much as the first, recalls the days when—
7"Music, heavenly maid, was young."
9If asked to describe in two words the prevailing mood of the tone-poem now before us, those words would be "simplicity and innocence." Under the storm and stress
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