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Scan 84
Violin Mastery, 1919
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 60. See the scan on archive.org.
1most interesting experience. The musicianship Kneisel had given me; I was used to his style and at home with his ideas, and am happy to think that he was satisfied. A year later as assistant concertmaster in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, I had a chance to become practically acquainted with the orchestral works of Strauss, d'Indy and other moderns, and enjoy the Beethoven, Brahms and Tschai-kovsky symphonies as a performer.
3TECHNIC AND MUSICIANSHP
5"How do I regard technic now? I think of it in the terms of the music itself. Music should dictate the technical means to be used. The composition and its phrases should determine bowing and the tone quality employed. One should not think of down-bows or up-bows. In the Brahms concerto you can find many long phrases: they cannot be played with one bow; yet there must be no apparent change of bow. If the player does not know what the phrase means; how to interpret it, how will he be able to bow it correctly?
7"And there are so many different nuances, especially in legato. It is as a rule produced by a slurred bow; yet it may also be produced
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