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VIOLIN MASTERY

“To me it signifies technical efficiency coupled with poetic insight, freedom from conventionally accepted standards, the attainment of a more varied personal expression along individual lines. It may be realized, of course, only to a degree, since the possessor of absolute ‘Violin Mastery’ would be forever glorified. As it is the violin master, as I conceive him, represents the embodier of the greatest intimacy between himself, the artist, and his medium of expression. Considered in this light Pablo Casals and his ‘cello, perhaps, most closely comply with the requirements of the definition. And this is not as paradoxical as it may seem, since all string instruments are brethren, descended from the ancient viol, and the ‘cello is, after all, a variant of the violin!”

Violin Mastery
Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
by Frederick H. Martens
Published 1919

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