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Violin master works and their interpretation, 1925
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1from which Paganini drew suggestions for those he himself wrote, but principally owing to two fine sonatas which still form part of the concert repertoire of his instrument.
3The Sonata in G major* by Locatelli is one of the few eighteenth-century violin sonatas which exist in only one edition. Ferdinand David's collection, "The High School of Violin Playing," contains a Sonata in G minor, by Locatelli, it is true; yet it is entirely different from the one in G major, not alone in key but in character as well. The first of these two Locatelli Sonatas with which we are concerned comprises four movements: Largo, Allegro, Andante and Allegro. Quite contrary to the custom of Locatelli's day, which demanded that all the movements of a sonata be written in the same key, in this work the two slow movements are in G minor, and the two Allegros in G major, and this gives the whole composition a quality of life and color in decided contrast to other sonatas of the same period.
5The Largo has an imposing theme whose majestic character is emphasized by the two General Pauses at the end of the first measure:
7Largo
9and at the beginning of the fifth.
11The last mentioned hold being conceived as an echo. As in the slow movements of other of these older Italian works the student should divide his four quarter-notes into eight eighth-notes.
13The succeeding Allegro is conceived as a movement very energetic in character and, thanks to the variety of bowings and their shading, it is very colorful. These nuances of stroke
15* Pietro Locatelli. Sonata in G major. Revised and edited with piano accompaniment by Julius Röntgen. G. Alsbach & Co., Amsterdam.
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