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Violin master works and their interpretation, 1925
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1large hands and long fingers to enable them to overcome their difficulties. This, however, now and again happens to be the case.
3In the same category belongs the transcription of Schubert's wonderful ballad, "The Erlking." It is wellnigh impossible for the four strings of the violin, minus an orchestra or a piano accompaniment, to do justice to the highly dramatic character of "The Erlking." Hence the work is practically never heard on the concert stage. It is essentially a technical étude, and belongs in the studio.
5Two other compositions by the same composer date from the Romantic period, the middle of the nineteenth century. These are the "Elégie," which in its day lured many a tear from sentimental feminine eyes; and the "Carneval de Venise," a "War-horse" of antiquated virtuosity. Both compositions vanished from the concert stage more than fifty years ago.
7CHAPTER X.
9THE THREE MASTER-CONCERTOS OF VIOLIN LITERATURE.
11(Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms)
13Though the choice of Beethoven's (1809), Mendelssohn's (1844) and Brahms' (1879) concertos as the three outstanding "master concertos" written for the violin is, of course, an individual one and represents primarily my own conviction, I believe it is one I share with the majority of violinists. I also have preferred to consider them together in view of the fact that the considerations advanced in my "Introduction" anent the first essentials of an interpretation which reveals the soul of the composer's music, especially the principle of the variation of effect, are the more important the greater the work in question, and apply especially to these three super-concertos.
15Let us consider Beethoven's Violin Concerto,* for example. At its very beginning the composer has set down: Allegro, ma
17* Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D major. Revised and edited by Leopold Auer. Carl Fischer, Inc., New York.
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