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This series of articles contains a minute critical analysis of this great maker's work, and the author claims to have discovered in Andreas Gisalberti (a maker almost unknown at the present day), the teacher of Joseph Guarnerius, a conclusion arrived at after the most convincing evidence, which he puts forward in a very able and readable manner. Full page illustrations of violins by Joseph Guarnerius and Andreas Gisalberti are given.
Selected Violin Solos and How to Play them. By BASIL ALTHAUS, F.C.V. Illustrated with music examples.
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Technics of Violin Playing ON JOACHIM'S METHOD BY CARL COURVOISIER, With Folding Plates, containing Fifteen Illustrations.
MY DEAR MR. COURVOISIER: I have read the book on Violin Playing you have sent me, and have to congratulate you sincerely on the manner in which you have performed a most difficult task, _i.e._, to describe the best way of arriving at a correct manner of playing the violin.
It cannot but be welcome to thoughtful teachers, who reflect on the method of our art, and I hope that your work will prove useful to many students.
Believe me, my dear Mr. Courvoisier, to be most faithfully yours, JOSEPH JOACHIM. Berlin, November 3rd, 1894.
The New and Revised Edition of "Technics of Violin Playing," issued by THE STRAD, is the only authorised edition of my work. The several English Editions which have all appeared without my knowledge are _incomplete_ and _faulty_.