Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule
Attempt a thorough Violin School is the title of a theoretical work by Leopold Mozart, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From the second edition of 1770 it is called on violin-playing. The 1756 and wrote in his time very successful school work was one of the first lessons for the violin; Mozart tried it systematically prepare didactics of playing the violin. Today it serves as a source for historical performance practice.
Formation
1751 Francesco Geminiani was The Art of Playing on the Violin published in London, L' Abbé Le Fils had issued his Principes du Violon in Paris in 1761. As an accomplished musician and teacher, Mozart was aware of the necessity of a German violin school, especially to play with C. P. E. Bach's Essay on the True Art of the piano and the flute traversière to play JJ Quantz's attempt at a German-language instruction already teaching works for other instruments were available.
However, the most important basis for the book was certainly the educational work Giuseppe Tartini, who had indeed written no printed Schulwerk, but its didactic concepts circulating in the form of a transcript of its students throughout Europe alongside the works mentioned above.
The following issues appeared:
- The first edition was published in 1756 in Augsburg, and the Prince-Bishop Sigismund III. Dedicated to Christopher Schrattenbach. She wears - as the second edition - as a preamble is a quote from the second book of de musica of Aristides Quintilian: ". Esse igitur adolescentes nobis Musica erudiendos, ipsiusque tota vita, quantum fieri possit, rationem habendam, neminem ahlocuturum puto " ( I think no one will deny that so the young men need to be taught by us in the music and that one had to make life-long, how much could happen. ) Dutch translation: Haarlem in 1766.
- French translation: Paris 1770 passim
While still alive, Leopold Mozart, in 1766 brought John Enschede in Haarlem, a Dutch translation out. This was followed by several others, including 1804 into Russian. To date, the Violinschule experienced over 1800 runs.
Echo
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, the most important music theorists of the Enlightenment was expressed in his Historical and Critical Beyträgen as follows:
How long does the " experiment" was currently shown by the following quotation from a letter Carl Friedrich Zelter to Goethe from 1829:
Content
The headings of the chapters of the first edition provide an overview of the versatile demands of school:
Expenditure
- Violin-playing, 3rd Edition 1787 (PDF ); also at archive.org
- Leopold Mozart: Violin attempt a thorough school. Reprint of the first edition. Barenreiter, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-7618-1238-8
- Leopold Mozart: violin-playing. Facsimile reprint of the 3rd edition, Augsburg 1789 [actually 1787 ], foreword by David Oistrakh, explained and commented by Hans Rudolf Jung. German VEB Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1968, ISBN 3-370-00172-1
- Facsimile of the French edition, about 1790. Biblioteca Nacional de España