Skip to main content

The Art of the Violin

Quick Search

Online Store

The Art of the Violin
Price:
46.22 USD
Author:
Sales Baillot, Pierre Marie François
Composer:
Goldberg, Louise
Editor/Arranger:
Northwestern University Press
ISBN/ISMN:
0810107546
SKU:
BAILL001

Edited and Translated by Louise Goldberg
With a Foreword by Zvi Zeitlin

Never before available in English, this classic work is a major contribution to the art and technique of violin playing and an important document in the history of performance practice. A contemporary of Kreutzer and Rode, Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot provides in his treatise many insights into the style of nineteenth-century fingering, bowing, ornamentation, and expressiveness that are not apparent from the directions and markings found in scores of that time. Such information will be invaluable for performers interested in understanding the intentions of composers such as Viotti, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn.