Leopold Auer’s Advice on Fingering or Violin Fingering

Leopold Auer’s advice on violin fingering are here excerpted as follows –

(A) Students should adopt fingerings to suit their individual physicalities. 

(B) Fingerings should make for ease of movement. 

(C) Fingerings should also be ‘rhythmic’ (p. 41), or it should fit a work of music’s rhythmic line and general movement.

(D) Auer also suggests that violin fingering suit the music as well the ‘the meaning and character  of a musical phrase’, let it through poor fingering be ‘easily destroyed’ (41)

To this end, fingerings should bring out, for example, the character of a musical phrase or motif.

A slurred three note motif, for example, should be fingered and then played in a way that brings that kind of a musical character out. 

All-in-all, violin fingers should work for musical identity, and not against it.

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