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The violin : solo playing, soloists and solos, 1905
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1spirit of art and they ought to be performed in the same spirit.
3By the frequent practice and rehearsal of these works, by the delight they give and the grand effects they produce, it will be plainly seen whether one has the soul and the mind for the music of the highest standard; what affinity there is between composer and player, and whether one is imbued with a sense of real expression.
5I know of very good players who have passed the greater part of their time in practising and performing classical music, and passed it with absolute enjoyment. In playing good music it is possible to find the greatest gratification one is capable of. Another good consequence is, that it prevents tediousness of playing. It reconciles one to repetition, whereas, in works of an inferior class, repetition is wearisome. No person who is endowed with artistic sentiment, could keep from taking part in and enjoying quartet playing; and all language I can use, only imperfectly describes the pleasure derived.
7But the love of classical music, were it ever so devoted, were it carried up as high as is possible with those who are in the full enjoyment of great gifts, should not absorb them from every other form of music. It would be simply stupefaction.
9The admiration of chamber music, by its very nature, might gain a complete possession of the mind, so that a person acting under its influence would take no other music into account. With strictness, perhaps, this cannot truthfully be denied, for quartet music does so surpass all other forms of music in value and importance, that it ought to occupy a place in the minds of all violinists, proportioned to that importance. But when I say it should not absorb every thought, I mean that orchestral playing or violin duets, or the limitless number of slow movements written by virtuosi, should not be ignored.
11But to return to quartets. The works of this class by Beethoven, Mozart, Hadyn, Dvorak and Brahms, are real inspirations and complete works of art. They have
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