TY - BOOK AU - Martens,Frederick Herman TI - Violin mastery: interviews with Heifetz, Auer, Kreisler, and others SN - 0486450414 AV - MT260 .M35 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Mineola, N.Y. PB - Dover Publications KW - Violin KW - Instruction and study KW - Violinists KW - Interviews N1 - 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" ER -