Yet, at the same time, few violinists can speak with more authority anent the instructive phases of their Art.
I never realized this more forcibly than once, when, sitting as a judge, I listened to the competitive playing of a number of young professional violinists and pianists.
Many advanced violinists cannot play a good scale simply because of a lack of fundamental work.
I think that the most valuable lessons I have ever had are those unconsciously given me by four of the greatest violinists I know: Ysaye, Kreisler, Elman and Thibaud.
In the Bach Chaconne, for instance, some very great violinists do not pay enough attention to making a distinction between principal and secondary notes of a chord.
Amateurs--violinists who love music for its own sake, and have sufficient facility to perform such works creditably--do not do nearly enough ensemble playing with a pianist.
There have been only three violinists within my own recollection, whom I would call masters of the violin.
An exaggerated vibrato is as bad as what I call 'the sentimental slide,' a common fault, which many violinists cultivate under the impression that they are playing expressively.
But a few weeks before his sudden death the most distinguished of native violinists completed in THE STRAD a series of chats to students of the instrument associated with his name.
Much of his use of these devices is put down as clap-trap, yet since his day many violinists have employed the same means, if they have not achieved the same result.
I have no hesitation in recommending it as an indispensable work to all aspiring violinists and teachers.
Thus they produced a sort of vibrato, not unlike that of which we have received an overdose in recent years from violinists and 'cellists.
Much the same might be said of the Russian violinists and the Russian singers, many of whom have met with tremendous success.
From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present time the lists of excellent violinists have rapidly increased and heights of technical skill have been reached by many that would have dazzled early violin masters.
In the hall there was no one--no, not even among the many professional violinists who envied him his triumphs--who had more plainly remarked the great change which began to take place in the genial virtuoso than his idolizing daughter.
THE STRAD gives all the important doings of Violinists at home and abroad all the year round.
Gesa had been sent on a government pension and supported, moreover, by the favor of several eminent persons, to study under one of the most famous violinists of the time, then settled in Paris.
Around the fountain were ranged twenty-four violinists with their violins, and their music was hardly able to cover the music of the fountain.
One of the gayest of the company insisted that the violinists should play, and that they should dance right there in the street of the village.
Nevertheless, only 7 first violinists and only 6 seconds who were paid some 5 some 7 fl.
His own skill rendered him amply competent to play the second violin, which he usually did; but the young Mayseder, or some other of the first violinists of the city, was ever ready to take his part when required.
He knew that all famous violinistspossessed instruments of these schools, and that such violins were practically beyond the reach of many.
The phrases are short, staccato notes abound, and scarcely in an entire score have the violinists the long sustained phrases, where the singing power of this beautiful instrument appears.
Spohr is to be praised for his recommendations to young violinists not to neglect that which is useful, in the prosecution of the study of harmonics; young violoncellists please attend to the advice!
He was then a young man of nineteen, but technically already superior to all the violinists that had been heard in the Austrian capital.
The libretto was the work of Paul Zouche, and the music by one of the greatest violinists in the world, Louis Valdor.
Three violinists abide clear in my recollection: Wieniawski, Wilhelmj, and Ysaye.
Violinists will understand the feat when I tell them that the key was the original one--D flat.
Few violinists have been more closely associated with quartet playing than Ferdinand David, in his way one of the most celebrated violinists.
His powers were, however, failing, and other violinists had brought new and perhaps higher interest to American audiences.
Of the many violinists who have made their home in the United States there are few whose accomplishments better entitle them to a position among celebrated violinists than Mr. Franz Kneisel.
When Ole Bull played in Boston in 1852, after having been absent for several years, during which time other violinists had been heard, John S.
The only conclusion to be drawn is that the greatest violinists were really independent of any school, and, by their own genius, broke loose from tradition and established schools of their own.
But space does not permit of a mention of more than has been attempted, and a few pages must be given to lady violinists and to a few words about celebrated quartets.
The later ones we shall find in their place in succeeding chapters, but there have been very few violinists of English birth who have followed the career of the "virtuoso.
Few violinists have had the advantage which has fallen to the lot of Gregorowitsch, of receiving instruction from so many great teachers.
His left hand pizzicato is marvellous, and he makes runs in single and artificial harmonics as quickly as most violinists can play an ordinary scale.
It does not follow by any means that the travelling virtuoso is one of the greatest violinists of his time.
A fine classical player and artist, frequently associated with Joachim, Lady Halle was the first of the women violinists who could stand comparison with men.
Four rare violinists provided by Nesmond strike out with an old melody by Rameau, full of triplets, quaint and melancholy in its vivacity; and you should see the pretty little grandmothers turn slowly and bow gravely in time with the music.
The four littleviolinists alone are belated in a corner; and M.
To be sure, in three years, by the time she was ten, she would be a wonderful player, but by waiting longer she would become one of the few great violinists of the world.
It is, indeed, only within a comparatively few years that the claims of women to superiority as violinists have been treated with anything better than sneers.
It may be as well to observe that some violinists prefer using a rather flatter fingerboard than others, but the medium is without doubt the best, and is not difficult to arrive at.
The violins and flutes begin to be audible and the violinistsare suddenly struck with a simultaneous desire to pick the strings, just as if that would make any music.
As one after another ceased playing and left the orchestra, until only two violinists remained, he quietly observed, "If all go, we may as well go too.
Several eminent violinists were in London at the time of Haydn's visit.
Two policemen standing in the aisle near the first violinists are talking together, and Carl Rosa and a half dozen others snap at them to stop their gossip.
Look among the first violinists and you will see Ole Bull, prince of them all, fired with the spirit of the occasion.
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