The great violinists / Margaret Campbell ; foreword by Ruggiero Ricci.
| Author/creator | Campbell, Margaret, 1940- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1981. |
| Description | xxix, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Beginnings -- The archangel and the red priest. Arcangelo Corelli ; Antonio Vivaldi -- Master of the nations. Giuseppe Tartini -- Viotti and the French trio. Giovanni Battista Viotti ; Pierre Baillot de Sales ; Pierre Rode ; Rodolphe Kreutzer -- 'Nightingale of violinists'. Louis Spohr -- The catalyst. Niccolo Paganini -- Disciples of Paganini. Camille Sivori ; Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst ; Antonio Bazzini ; Ole Bull -- Age of transition. Joseph Bohm ; Ferdinand David ; Charles Auguste de Beriot -- The hot-bed of Liege. Lambert Joseph Massart ; Martin Marsick ; Cesar Thomson -- 'He holds you in a magic circle'. Henri Vieuxtemps -- The Slavonic wizard. Henri Wieniawski -- Servant of art. Joseph Joachim -- Lady of the bow. Wilma Norman-Neruda -- Incomparable charmer. Pablo Saraste -- The great teachers. August Wilhelmj ; Leopold Auer ; Otakar Sevcik ; Jeno Hubay ; Carl Flesch -- 'As the birds sang'. Eugene Ysaye -- Symbol of an epoch. Fritz Kreisler -- The French phenomenon. Jacques Thibaud -- To dance in chains. Georges Enesco ; Jan Kubelik -- The unridled individualist. Bronislav Huberman -- 'Our own Albert'. Albert Sammons -- The Russian vanguard. Efrem Zimbalist ; Mischa Elman -- The scholarly virtuoso. Josef Szigeti -- 'King of violinists'. Jascha Heifetz -- Child of the revolution. Nathan Milstein -- The Bel Canto virtuoso. Alfredo Campoli -- The entertainers. Albert Sandler ; Tom Jenkins ; Maz Jaffa ; Reginald Leopold ; John Georgiadis -- The violin 'Hot'. George Morrison ; Eddie South ; Stuff Smith ; Joe Venuti ; Stephane Grappelli -- More ladies of the bow. Marie Hall ; Maud Powell ; Erica Morini ; Gioconda de Vito -- The enkindling spirit. David Oistrakh -- A man for all music. Yehudi Menuhin -- The born virtuoso. Ruggiero Ricci -- Aim high - aim at beauty. Ginette Neveu ; Ida Haendel -- The elder statesman. Isaac Stern -- The musician's musician. Arthur Grumiaux -- The diplomat and 'The Polish boy'. Henryk Szeryng ; Josef Hassid -- Great teachers of America. Louis Persinger ; Josef Gingold ; Ivan Galamian -- The 'Galamian trio'. Itzhak Perlman ; Pinchas Zukerman ; Kyung-Wha Chung -- The English phenomenon. Ralph Holmes -- Great quartet leaders -- The way ahead. |
| Abstract | By giving brief accounts of the lives, characters, and history of great violinists, this book brings out the special achievement of each. Shows the stylistic lineage of such differing players as Perlman, Stern, and Menuhin in unbroken teacher-pupil continuity back to Corelli. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-331), discography (pages 329-331), and index. |
| LCCN | 80002904 |
| ISBN | 0385175655 : |
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