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ILLUSTRATIONS
Eugene Ysaye _Frontispiece_

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Leopold Auer 14

Mischa Elman 38

Arthur Hartmann 66

Jascha Heifetz 78

Fritz Kreisler 100

Franz Kneisel 110

Adolfo Betti 128

David Mannes 146

Tivadar Nachez 160

Maud Powell 184

Toscha Seidel 220

Albert Spalding 240

Theodore Spiering 248

Jacques Thibaud 260

Gustav Saenger 278

VIOLIN MASTERY

EUGENE YSAYE

THE TOOLS OF VIOLIN MASTERY

Who is there among contemporary masters of the violin whose name stands
for more at the present time than that of the great Belgian artist, his
"extraordinary temperamental power as an interpreter" enhanced by a
hundred and one special gifts of tone and technic, gifts often alluded
to by his admiring colleagues? For Ysaye is the greatest exponent of
that wonderful Belgian school of violin playing which is rooted in his
teachers Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski, and which as Ysaye himself says,
"during a period covering seventy years reigned supreme at the
_Conservatoire_ in Paris in the persons of Massart, Remi, Marsick, and
others of its great interpreters."

What most impresses one who meets Ysaye and talks with him for the
first time is the mental breadth and vision of the man; his kindness and
amiability; his utter lack of small vanity. When the writer first called
on him in New York with a note of introductio from his friend and
admirer Adolfo Betti, an