The Art of Bowing (50 Variations on a Gavotte by Corelli) for solo violin; Giuseppe Tartini

The Art of Bowing (50 Variations on a Gavotte by Corelli) for solo violin by Giuseppe Tartini

• Edited and revised by Leopold Lichtenberg. Published by Schirmer.
• Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) was a prominent Italian composer, violinist, and teacher of the Baroque era. He was also a noted music theorist, as well as one of the earliest scholars of acoustics, writing and publishing several treatises in his lifetime. Most of his compositions were violin sonatas and concertos.
• Tartini's "The Art of Bowing" for solo violin is one of the great early violin methods. Across fifty variations on a gavotte by Corelli, he produces a series of exacting exercises to develop bowing-as well as left hand-mastery. It is never pedantic and always musical. In the 20th century, it became a favorite of such legendary violinists as Fritz Kreisler and Joseph Szigeti. Advanced level, Grade 5.