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Violin master works and their interpretation, 1925
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1FOREWORD.
3For the violinist—as for every musical artist—"interpretation," the living soul of playing, is the touchstone of his art. When he can translate in tone the thought, the spirit, the beauty of the music he plays so that it is revealed to his auditors with the clarity and beauty its composer intended, he is truly an interpreting artist."
5The formulating of the "how" of interpretation, even with regard to those masterworks of the violin which every advanced student must know, is not so easy. As the author of this volume points out in his "Introduction," the student himself must be equipped with a very definite quota of technique, musical intuition and good taste before he can hope to derive major benefit from the detailed interpretative consideration of any important work.
7It may safely be said that there are only a few individual figures in the violin world whose outstanding achievement and authority would secure for their views that general respect which would make such consideration valid. For the interpretation of a musical composition always remains to such a degree an individual and personal matter, that only the utterances of an interpreter whose experience and authority were unquestioned would secure for his conclusions the practical acknowledgement which would make them most widely useful and beneficial.
9That the aesthetic and practical views of the man who has formed that brilliant galaxy of contemporary violin virtuosos known as the "Russian school," anent the interpretation of the master works of the violin are invaluable to every student of the instrument may be taken for granted. And yet, with the instinctive modesty common to those whose achievement is real, Professor Auer at first hesitated to commit himself to a book on a subject which so greatly interested him and which he was so uniquely fitted to consider.
11The writer, with whom Professor Auer discussed the matter when the subject of the present volume was mooted, was instrumental in overcoming his first hesitation and this may have led Professor Auer to suggest his "Foreword" for a
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