The Art of Bowing (50 Variations on a Gavotte by Corelli) for solo violin by Giuseppe Tartini
Edited by Fritz Kreisler. Published by Carl Fischer.
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.
