Steve Schwartz on string part writing:

>Talk to a string player.  His parts get rewritten all the time.  One
>first-rank virtuoso (whom I'll leave nameless) told me that Beethoven's
>violin writing is simply the right hand of the pianist.  It makes sense to
>me.  Neither Beethoven nor Brahms - as opposed to Dvorak - were string
>players, but pianists.

I do remember that A-S Mutter said something like that about Beethoven's
violin writing (referring to the Violin Concerto) ten years ago.

Mikael
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