Principles of Bowing and Phrasing: Hints to Serious Violin Students

31 pp. Printed wrappers. Black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and musical excerpts throughout. A scarce instructional resource for violinists, by somewhat of a musical prodigy. Kneisel was a violinist, conductor, and music teacher who completed early musical training at the Bucharest Conservatory, studied at the Vienna Conservatory under Jakob Grun, and befriended Johannes Brahms. By his late teens he had already filled the role of concertmaster at two prestigious venues, and was quickly thereafter hired as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which had only been founded four years earlier. After arriving in America, Kneisel founded the nation's first professional string quartet, which operated for over thirty years. He also taught at New York's Institute for Musical Art (which later changed it's named to the Julliard School), and co-founded New York's Bohemian music club. Many of his students had notable careers of their own, and the influence he had on late 19th- and early 20th-century classical music performance and education is undeniable. This work was originally written for The Minnesota Music Teachers' Association.