For the serious student of the violin the 24 Caprices placed alongside those of Kreutzer, Don’t, Wieniawski and Paganini remain essential building blocks for a well-rounded and secure technique and sound education on the violin. They are also a necessary adjunct and have great value when transcribed for the Viola. As that great violin pedagogue Leopold Auer says “ There is no instrument whose absolute mastery at a later period presupposes such...
For the serious student of the violin the 24 Caprices placed alongside those of Kreutzer, Don’t, Wieniawski and Paganini remain essential building blocks for a well-rounded and secure technique and sound education on the violin. They are also a necessary adjunct and have great value when transcribed for the Viola. As that great violin pedagogue Leopold Auer says “ There is no instrument whose absolute mastery at a later period presupposes such...
