Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides, Violin and Viola (Signed copy)
Signed by Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner, and Léon Goossens
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Printing Details
First edition. Paperback. 21.5 × 13.5cm, 250pp.
This copy has been signed by Yehudi Menuhin to the first front endpaper, the second front endpaper by Hungarian pianist Louis Kentner (Menuhin's regular accompanist), and Léon Goossens, the British oboist.
Yehudi Menuhin shares with the reader his unique store of understanding about the violin, about how to exercise and practise, about the techniques of performance. His reflections on the nature and scope of his instrument are profoundly illuminating and his theories on interpretation particularly valuable. A section on the violinist as teacher/student contains a fascinating transcript of a lesson with Yehudi Menuhin, who also writes separately about the violinist as orchestral player, leader, chamber music player, recitalist and soloist. William Primrose writes the distinguished monograph on the viola and describes the instrument as ‘a violin with a college education’. He was an acknowledged technical master of the viola who, along with Lionel Tertis, was one of the finest exponents of this beautiful instrument of the 20th century. Denis Stevens, the British musicologist and specialist in early music, provides and interesting chapter on the history of the violin and looks in detail at the monumental challenge that is Bach’s Six Solos for Violin without Bass Accompaniment better known as the Sonatas and Partitas for Violin.
Condition
Good condition. Whilst the book remains in strong readable condition, there is some tanning to the page edges and margins, and some corner creasing to the covers. One slight crease to the spine.
Price
£40.00
