lart violon nouvelle methode dédiée de baillot pierre 1771 1842 (2 résultats)

Both copies in BnF comprise 277pp. Size: Folio. [i (title)], 279pp. + 3 plates. Half leather (rubbed, corners bumped) with marbled boards. Some light foxing. Engraved. "It is significant of the changing times that Viotti, an Italian who came to Paris about the same time, nurtured the French school of Baillot, Rode, and Kreutzer, a school that exerted a most important influence on violin technique in the nineteenth century. Paganini, the last of the great Italian violinists, was the star and symbol of nineteenth-century violin virtuosity, but the true teacher of the nineteenth-century violinist was Baillot, a Frenchman" (David Boyden, The History of Violin Playing from its Origins to 1761, Oxford 1965, p.315).

Folio. 19th century vellum-backed marbled boards. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [1] (printed dedication: "L'Auteur A Ses Eleves"), 2-10, 3ff. (illustrating the correct and incorrect ways of holding the violin and bow, printed on rectos only), 11-272, 273 ("Catalogue des Auteurs dont les compositions servent à l'enseignement dans les Classes du Violon du Conservatoire Compositeurs Morts, ordre chronologique" and "Auteurs Vivans, ordre alphabétique"), 274-275 ("Table Analytique des Matières), 276-279 ("Table Alphabétique des Matières" and "Articles Oubliés"), [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout. Contents include (in translation): Remarks on this new method; Introduction; Progress of the art; Notice regarding the order followed in this method -- The principles of technique -- Preparatory exercises; Scales of one octave -- The seven positions -- The scale -- Chromatic scales -- Melodic ornament -- Double and triple stops -- The bow -- Tone -- Timbre and character of the four strings of the violin -- Nuances -- Fingering; The minor mode -- Ornamentation -- Musical punctuation -- Holds and cadenzas -- Melodic and harmonic preludes -- Standard pitch -- On the natural in art -- Musical character: the accent that determines it -- Effect and means of effect -- How to practice -- Expression and means of expression -- Explanation of the signs used in this work -- Catalogue of the composers whose compositions are used in the violin classes at the Conservatoire national in Paris -- Analytical table of contents -- Alphabetical table. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped, head and tail of spine with minor chipping; endpapers creased. Minor foxing throughout, heavier to some leaves; several signatures loose, a few leaves partially detached; facsimile signature handstamp, embossed stamp, and French music seller's handstamp to title. An early reissue of the first edition published by Troupenas in 1834. "Baillot was the last representative of the Classical Paris school of violinists. A remarkable virtuoso . The founder in France of the first chamber music group of professional musicians, he made a major contribution to the diffusion of a hitherto unknown repertory (principally the quartets and quintets of Boccherini and Mozart and the quartets of Haydn and Beethoven) as a result of his 154 concerts . He also scheduled concerts of his own works . and those of his contemporaries (Cherubini, Onslow, and Mendelssohn, but also Kreutzer, Rode, Romberg, and Viotti among others). Respectful of the tradition he had inherited, he was responsible for a rediscovery of old music: J.S. Bach, Barbella, Corelli, Germiniani, Handel, and Tartini. A renowned and influential pedagogue, Baillot had numerous pupils, including Mazas, Sauzay, and Charles and Léopold Dancla. A prolific and talented composer, besides nine concertos and a symphonie concertante for two violins, he wrote 'airs' and 'thèmes variés', caprices and études, duos, trios, string quartets, and a sonata for piano and violin. Although his compositions are almost entirely forgotten, L'art du violon (1834) still holds its place as a standard work." Paul David, revised by Manoug Parikian and Michelle Garnier-Panafie in Grove Music Online.