Violin mastery : interviews with Heifetz, Auer, Kreisler, and others / [edited by] Frederick H. Martens

Originally published: New York : F.A. Stokes, c1919

Eugène Ysaye : the tools of violin mastery -- Leopold Auer : a method without secrets -- Eddy Brown : Hubay and Auer, technique--hints to the student -- Mischa Elman : life and color in interpretation. Technical phases -- Samuel Gardner : technique and musicianship -- Arthur Hartmann : the problem of technique -- Jascha Heifetz : the danger of practicing too much. Technical mastery and temperament -- David Hochstein : the violin as a means of expression and expressive playing -- Fritz Kreisler : personality in art -- Franz Kneisel : the perfect string ensemble -- Adolfo Betti : the technique of the modern quartet -- Hans Letz : the technique of bowing -- David Mannes : the philosophy of violin teaching -- Tivadar Nachéz : Joachim and Leonard as teachers -- Maximilian Pilzer : the singing tone and the vibrato -- Maud Powell : technical difficulties, some hints for the concert player -- Leon Sametini : harmonics -- Alexander Saslavsky : what the teacher can and cannot do -- Toscha Seidel : how to study -- Edmund Severn : the Joachim bowing and others, the left hand -- Albert Spalding : the most important factor in the development of an artist -- Theodore Spiering : the application of bow exercises to the study of Kreutzer -- Jacques Thibaud : the ideal program -- Gustav Saenger : the editor as a factor in "violin mastery"