Henry VIEUXTEMPS. Autograph manuscript; 9... - Lot 150 - Ader

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Henry VIEUXTEMPS. Autograph manuscript; 9... - Lot 150 - Ader
Henry VIEUXTEMPS. Autograph manuscript; 9 pages in-fol. Drafts for an unpublished violin method. Draft preface (on paper dated 1852 in watermark; 1 page in-fol.). "This method having as its aim only the special teaching of the art of playing the violin, the author assumes and even requires that the pupil who will want to use it already has some general knowledge of music [...] There will be an explanation only for everything that concerns exclusively the violin. [...] I begin with the pose of the body, then that of the violin and the bow; ...] on the first habit of good or bad posture, depends the entire future of the future artist, as much as the pleasure of the amateur"... etc. Three successive drafts, with numerous erasures and corrections, of the chapter De la tenue de l'archet, the last version cleaned up entitled De la tenue de l'archet et du bras droit: "The bow is held with the right hand, placing the end of the thumb a little to the side against the frog between the hairs and the stick, the other four fingers on the latter at equal distance from each other and roughly towards the first phalanx, except however the little finger which by its conformation can only reach it from the tip"... Etc. An autograph music sketch is attached (ca. 4 x 35 cm).
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