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Violin playing as I teach it (Leather Bound)
Violin playing as I teach it - Leather Bound Author:Leopold, Auer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: measure—it was the "Egmont" overture, by Beethoven—I lost my head completely, owing to the unaccustomed burst of sonority from the instruments surrounding me. Ne... more »vertheless, I soon grew used to the ensemble, and in the course of time greatly enjoyed taking part in the orchestra work; while at the same time I laid a foundation for my knowledge of the orchestra. What I learned there in Vienna was of great service to me some forty years later in Petrograd, where I conducted the symphonic concerts of the "Imperial Russian Musical Society," founded by Anton Rubinstein—an organization which flourished up to the time of the Revolution of 1917. It was in 1858 that I completed my course in Vienna and received the medal and diploma of the Conservatory, which later I found served me everywhere very acceptably as a passport in the provincial towns in which I played! But a career as a concert artist playing in small towns was by no means my dream! I played in them through force of circumstances, for my parents could no longer support me, and I had to gain my living as best I could, and, whenever possible give such help ,s .. as I could to my family who had done so much for me. I was only a young artist then, whose musical education was as yet uncompleted, handicapped at first by my lack of a sufficiently large and varied repertory. Little by little, however, I built up my repertory by using every opportunity that came to me to hear genuine virtuosos play while "on tour," and by hearing them play in Vienna, during my rare visits to that city—on which occasions I never failed to profit greatly by the advice of Professor Dont. In those days there were comparatively few violinists traveling on concert tours. The means of transportation were inadequate, and traveling was anything but com...« less