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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