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| Contents |
Part one. The distant past: 1530-1600. The emergence of the violin as a new instrument -- Part two. The age of experimentation: 1600-1700. Violinist-composers as innovators: new techniques, new forms -- Italy -- Northern Europe. English violinists ; Austria and Germany -- France -- Part three. The classics of the violin: 1700-1800. Italy. Corelli ; Vivaldi ; Tartini ; Italians abroad: travelers and expatriates ; Geminiani ; Veracini ; Locatelli ; Pugnani ; Nardini -- Germany and Austria. Violinists around J. S. Bach ; Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart -- The French school. Leclair and his time ; Gavinies ; Contemporaries of Leclair and Gavinies -- Giovanni Battista Viotti -- Part four. The nineteenth century. France: the heirs of Viotti. Rode ; Kreutzer ; Baillot ; Habeneck ; Lafont -- Nicolo Paganini -- After Paganini: the age of virtuosity. Paganini's impact on the Viennese school ; Ernst Paganini's impact on the French and Belgian schools ; Beriot ; Vieuxtemps ; Wieniawski ; Bull ; Sarasate -- Countercurrents. Spohr ; Joachim -- Part five. The twentieth century. A new breed of virtuoso. Ysaye ; Kreisler ; Huberman -- German antipodes to Joachim. Wilhelmj ; Burmester -- Berlin after the death of Joachim. Marteau ; Busch ; Kulenkampff ; Flesch ; The Flesch school -- The Paris Conservatoire after 100 years. Thibaud ; Enesco ; Capet -- The new French school. Francesatti ; Grumiaux ; Neveu -- The Hungarian school. Hubay ; Vecsay ; Szigeti ; Telmanyi -- The Bohemian school. Sevcik ; Kubelik ; Kocian ; Morini ; Prihoda ; Suk -- The new Viennese school -- The new Italian school -- The Russian school. Early history ; Auer -- The great Auer disciples. Elman ; Zimbalist ; Heifetz ; Milstein ; More Auer students and a few Muscovites -- The Soviet school. Leningrad and Moscow: Poliakin ; Odessa: Stolyarsky ; Oistrakh ; Kogan ; Younger Soviet violinists ; Soviet emigre violinists -- The British school -- Violin playing in America: the older generation. Powell ; Spalding ; Kneisel ; Mannes ; Persinger ; More American violinists ; The Kneisel school ; The last three Auer students ; Rabinof ; Shumsky ; Dushkin and Stravinsky ; Krasner with Berg and Schoenberg -- The American school: the middle generation. Menuhin ; Ricci ; Stern ; More Persinger students -- The great American teachers. Galamian ; DeLay ; Gingold ; Schneider -- The American school: the younger generation. Mann ; Senofsky ; Harth ; Rabin ; Rosand ; Glenn ; Silverstein ; Treger ; Steinhardt ; Friedman ; Laredo ; Zukofsky ; Buswell ; Dicterow ; Ani and Ida Kavafian ; Fodor ; Oliveira ; Jenson ; Fulkerson ; Macomber ; Zazofsky ; Others ; Recent contests -- Violinists of Israel. Gitlis ; Ashkenazi ; Rogoff ; Michell ; Zeitlin ; Fried ; Perlman ; Zukerman ; Luca ; Mintz ; Others -- Violinists of the Orient. Japan ; South Korea ; Taiwan ; People's Republic of China. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-648) and index. |
| LCCN | 83011996 |
| ISBN | 0671225987 |
