Read Joseph Joachim’s rules for playing the violin

Read Joseph Joachim’s rules for playing the violin

main

norman lebrecht

November 19, 2018

Near the end of his life, the old master sent these to the last of his prodigies, Franz von Vecsey:

I love the final admonition: Loud playing and quick playing alone cannot do it; at most it only dazzles the ignorant in the audience. All depends upon beautiful playing and distinct playing.

H/t to Cho-Liang Lin for spotting the poster at Juilliard.

Comments

  • Jonathan Dunsby says:

    Wath we’d give for a recording of Joachim playing the Brahms concerto !

    Wasn’t Franz von Vecsey dedicatee of Sibelius concerto ?

  • Spenser says:

    Bravo Joachim!

  • The Internet says “Szeretettel” is Hungarian for “with love” (at the end of a letter).

  • MOST READ TODAY: