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The Kreutzer Etudes and today's young stars

Posted by rbolaw on July 28, 2015 at 09:34:02

As all violinists here know, Rudolph Kreutzer was a famous violin teacher in Beethoven's day, and all serious violin students are required to master his Etudes (studies). Similarly, young pianists must master the studies of Karl Czerny, a famed student of Beethoven. For flutists, it's Marcel Moyse, active in the early and mid-20th century but strongly influenced by both Kreutzer and Czerny.

In his 1969 book Szigeti on the Violin, the great Hungarian violinist (1892-1973) laments that younger professional violinists he works with played the Kreutzer Etudes early on as young students but then quickly forgot about them, rather than continuing to make use of them as he did:

"That I continued to use the Kreutzer Etudes of my childhood as a springboard for technical devices of my own invention at a time when I already had several tours -- Germany, Holland, France -- to my credit indicates an artisan's willingness to work in depth. Today, when much that is being recorded is prepared by enterprising young virtuosi at the behest of equally enterprising 'artists and repertoire' men of the recording companies, in a minimum of time, before the works have been absorbed into the players' bloodstream, this is something that should be considered."

Unfortunately, imo the trend to rush to record only accelerated in the following decades, and helps explain why so many of the recordings released by today's "young virtuosi", babes or otherwise, are so disappointing.

Edits: 07/28/15 07/28/15

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