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Violin master works and their interpretation, 1925
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1tive views by citing the actual opinions and procedure of such composers and artists as Joachim, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, Saint-Saëns, Wilhelmj, Sarasate, Sivori and others, whom he heard play most of the works to be considered and with whom he discussed them.
3A large number of musical examples, covering all the detail of the author's interpretative directions make the niceties of tempo, dynamics, special bowings, fingerings, etc., clear to the student beyond any manner of doubt; and as a pendant to the more important individual works considered, a concluding chapter develops the author's ideas with regard to "Transcriptions" and "Musical Memory," two subjects intimately linked with his theme; the first with the repertoire, the second with its presentation.
5The present volume is the third which its author has written. From the point of view of the student it is, perhaps, the most valuable. The values of the delightful "My Long Life in Music," in which Professor Auer has told the story of one of the most interesting of musical careers, are more purely literary and cultural. "Violin Playing as I Teach It" is devoted to the fundamental practical and aesthetic aspects of the art. But the "Violin Master Works and Their Interpretation" might be called the authoritative text-book of a master on interpretation whose teachings and influence have been revealed by pupils and interpreters such as Elman, Heifetz, Zimbalist and a score of others. And there can be no question but that the student who "marks, learns and inwardly digests it" will realize its author's hope that he will "find himself better able to express the soul, the thought, the spirit of the great creators of all that is finest in violin music."
7FREDERICK H. MARTENS.
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