Vingt-quatre caprices en forme d'etudes pour le violon seul dans les vingt-quatre tons de la gamme

Leipzig: C.F. Peters. [Ca. 1818]. Upright folio. Self-printed wrappers. 49 pp. Engraved throughout. [PN] 1461. Scattered foxing, some small tears to edges and corners, gatherings bound together but removed from a larger volume, ink stains on the first few leaves, otherwise a very good copy. Sold together with a slightly later issue of the Caprices, also engraved, from the same publisher. This second copy with unfortunate tape repairs to the wrappers and spine, but with the ownership signature of on the title page of the composer, conductor and musicologist Gottlieb Federlein (1825 - 1922), both editions from his collection.

"Rode was the most finished representative of the French violin school. Having assimilated Viotti’s Classical approach, he imbued it with characteristically French verve, piquancy and a kind of nervous bravura. His artistic growth took place during the revolutionary decade, and it is not surprising that his music is akin to that of Cherubini and Méhul and the operas of the 1790s; there is declamatory pathos, martial dash and melting cantilena. His gift for lyrical, often melancholy melody, which represents a prominent trend in French music of this period, made his music particularly attractive to German early Romantic composers. Rode’s best music is in his 13 concertos: they represent, to a greater degree than those of Viotti, the model of the French violin concerto, accepted as such by the entire generation and respected even by Beethoven [who composed his Opus. 96 Violin Sonata for Rode]." (Grove Online) (8621)

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