Franz Wohlfahrt
Sixty Studies, Op. 45
Franz Wohlfahrt’s Sixty Studies, Op. 45 is in the Practice Farm app. Anything can be played on any instrument. Every page of the library opens in your key and your clef, with your fingerings.
67 pages
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About the book
Franz Wohlfahrt (1833–1884) taught the violin in Leipzig, and his Sixty Studies, Op. 45 are among the first studies a young violinist is given: short pieces, each on one thing (a bowing, a string crossing, a shift, a key), most of Book 1 in the first position and Book 2 reaching higher. Wohlfahrt wrote them as a supplement to his violin method.
This edition. The studies are engraved from G. Schirmer's edition by Gaston Blay (Schirmer's Library vols. 838 and 839, New York, 1905), with all of its fingerings and bowings: ⊓ is a down-bow and V an up-bow, a 0 the open string (over a note no open string plays, the harmonic). Its first instruction holds for the whole book: hold the fingers down as long as possible; the left wrist very quiet. Several studies open with a staff of bowings or a model figure, kept here as pieces of their own; Nos. 2, 3 and 7 are to be played in the bowings given before No. 1. On a violin at the printed key the app shows the edition's fingerings; in another key, or on another instrument, it leaves them off.
Source: Edited by Gaston Blay (G. Schirmer, New York, 1905; Schirmer's Library vols. 838 and 839).
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Made by Nick Mahon, principal trombonist of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec and professor at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec.