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Violin mastery; talks with master violinists and teachers, comprising interviews with Ysaye, Kreisler, Elman, Auer, Thibaud, Heifetz, Hartmann, Maud Powell and others, 1919
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 183. See the scan on archive.org.
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3MAUD POWELL
5TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: SOME HINTS FOR THE CONCERT PLAYER
7MAUD POWELL is often alluded to as our representative "American woman violinist" which, while true in a narrower sense, is not altogether just in a broader way. It would be decidedly more fair to consider her a representative American violinist, without stressing the term "woman"; for as regards Art in its higher sense, the artist comes first, sex being incidental, and Maud Powell is first and foremost—an artist. And her infinite capacity for taking pains, her willingness to work hard have had no small part in the position she has made for herself, and the success she has achieved.
9THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CONCERT VIOLINIST
11"Too many Americans who take up the violin professionally," Maud Powell told the
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