A New History of Violin Playing: The Vibrato and Lambert Massart's Revolutionary Discovery

by Silvela, Zdenko

• ISBN13: 9781581126679
• ISBN10: 1581126670
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xii
The Beginnings
General considerations	p. 15
The origins	p. 17
Grotesques (Verlaine, verses in French)	p. 18
Grotesques (translation into English)	p. 20
Main characteristics	p. 23
From the beginnings to the king of instruments	p. 26
The king of instruments	p. 30
The violin eras	p. 30
1) The Ancient Era
General considerations: jugglers versus musicals	p. 32
Non-existence and rejection of the vibrato	p. 33
The Ancient violinists	p. 33
1632 Lully	p. 33
1644 Biber	p. 37
1650 Walther	p. 38
1653 Corelli	p. 39
1658 Torelli	p. 42
1678 Vivaldi	p. 44
1684 Manfredini	p. 47
1685 Handel, Bach and Domenico Scarlatti	p. 47
1685 Handel	p. 47
1685 Bach	p. 47
1686 Somis	p. 48
1687 Geminiani and Pisendel
1687 Geminiani	p. 50
1687 Pisendel	p. 57
1690 Veracini	p. 58
1692 Tartini	p. 60
1695 Locatelli	p. 65
1697 Leclair	p. 65
1697 Quantz	p. 70
The German School
1709 Benda, founder of the German school	p. 70
The Benda school or the German school	p. 71
1731 Cannabich, Christian	p. 72
1739 Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von	p. 72
1751 Haack, Karl	p. 72
1767 Eck, Friederich J.	p. 72
1771 Cannabich, Carl	p. 72
1774 Eck, Franz	p. 73
1774 Moser, Karl	p. 73
1789 Maurer, Ludwig	p. 73
1801 Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzel	p. 73
The Ancient Era: Continuation
1714 Gluck	p. 74
1716 Bini and Giardini
1716 Bini	p. 76
1716 Giardini	p. 77
1717 Stamitz	p. 81
1719 Mozart, Leopold	p. 82
1722 Nardini	p. 83
1725 Lolli	p. 84
1727 L'Abbe le Fils	p. 85
1728 Gavinies	p. 87
1731 Pugnani	p. 93
1751 Campagnoli	p. 94
1755 Viotti	p. 94
Compilation and conclusions of the ancient era	p. 95
Graph of the ancient era	p. 97
The Romantic Era
General considerations	p. 98
The creation of the modern conservatories	p. 99
Importance and international role of the Conservatoire de Paris	p. 101
The Romantic violinists
1755 Viotti	p. 103
1766 Kreutzer	p. 108
1771 Baillot	p. 109
1774 Rode	p. 112
1782 Paganini. Introduction	p. 114
Paganini composer	p. 126
The international career	p. 126
The decline	p. 129
The Romantic Era (Continuation)
1784 Spohr	p. 132
1790 Lipinski	p. 133
1795 Boehm	p. 134
1800 Hellmesberger Sr	p. 135
1802 Beriot	p. 135
1810 Bull and David
1810 Bull	p. 138
1810 David	p. 140
The Rise of the Modern Era. The Great Revolution of the Vibrato	p. 142
The need to obtain a louder sound from the violin	p. 142
Main characteristics	p. 143
The coexistence of, and the struggle between, the Romantics and the Moderns	p. 144
Lambert Massart founder of the modern school	p. 146
The logical arguments	p. 146
The Liszt's letter	p. 146
The teachings of the Bible	p. 146
The original designation of the vibrato	p. 147
The documented evidence	p. 148
The manuscript letters to Massart	p. 148
Kreisler 1st letter (to tell of my successes that I only owe to you)	p. 150
Kreisler 2nd letter (That I consider you the founder of my talent)	p. 154
Massart as pedagogue	p. 157
1811 Massart	p. 158
His efforts to become a professor at the Conservatoire	p. 163
Massart 1st letter	p. 167
Massart 2nd letter	p. 171
Massart's long list of first prize laureates	p. 172
Continuation of Massart's study	p. 175
Decorations and honours	p. 177
His succession at the Conservatoire	p. 178
The end	p. 179
The Overlapping of Romantics and Moderns	p. 181
1814 Ernst (Romantic)	p. 182
1815 Alard (Romantic)	p. 184
1820 Vieuxtemps (Romantic)	p. 185
1828 Hellmesberger Jr. (Romantic)	p. 187
1831 Joachim (Romantic)	p. 187
1835 Wieniawski (Modern)	p. 192
1836 Monasterio (Romantic)	p. 193
1844 Sarasate (Romantic)	p. 197
Sarasate and Pamplona	p. 199
The end	p. 200
Decorations and honours	p. 202
1845 Auer (Romantic)	p. 203
1848 Marsick (Modern)	p. 207
1858 Hubay and Ysaye
1858 Hubay (50/50 Romantic, Modern)	p. 208
1858 Ysaye (Modern)	p. 209
Recapitulation of the Romantic era	p. 212
Graph of the Romantic era	p. 213
The Gramophone and the Globalisation of the Vibrato Era	p. 214
1873 Flesch	p. 215
1875 Kreisler	p. 217
Kreisler 3rd letter (The successes I had so far are but dwarfs compared with my future ones)	p. 220
Kreisler 4th letter (You know well my laziness, my idleness)	p. 225
1880 Thibaud	p. 230
1881 Enescu	p. 231
1887 Persinger	p. 232
1890 Zimbalist	p. 233
1891 Dushkin and Elman
1891 Dushkin	p. 234
1891 Elman	p. 235
1892 Szigeti	p. 236
The 20th Century	p. 238
The main entrance gates	p. 238
1900 Heifetz	p. 239
1902 Francescatti	p. 241
Decorations and honours	p. 242
1903 Galamian	p. 242
1904 Milstein	p. 245
1908 Oistrakh	p. 246
1916 Menuhin	p. 247
1918 Ricci	p. 249
1919 Neveu	p. 251
1920 Stern	p. 253
1921 Grumiaux	p. 254
1923 Hassid	p. 256
1929 Suk	p. 258
1941 Accardo	p. 258
1945 Perlman and Kantorow
1945 Perlman	p. 260
1945 Kantorow	p. 262
1947 Kremer	p. 262
1948 Chung and Zukerman
1948 Chung	p. 263
1948 Zukerman	p. 265
1960 Lin	p. 266
1963 Mutter	p. 267
1974 Vengerov	p. 269
Graph of the modern school	p. 271
Acknowledgements	p. 272
Sources Consulted	p. 274
Cassettes' Contents	p. 278
Index to Cassettes	p. 287
Date of Birth Index	p. 302
Index to Violinists with Their Date of Birth	p. 305
Encyclopaedia	p. 308
Index	p. 398
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