(German version)

 The student concert has always been an important part of instrumental instruction. Unfortunately, a fundamental problem in violin teaching is that - unlike the piano - there are no original compositions by the "great" composers for the violin. I took this fact into account in the publication of my violin school in 2011 and in the publication of my transcription of the cello Bach solo suites for violin in 2017. If we ignore the usual reservations about student concerts by “minor violinists”, they do offer a number of advantages:

- in a mode that is clearly limited in difficulty (e.g. only first and third positions), the student can concentrate on applying what he has learned so far, - the longer movements – in contrast to the short practice piece

– allow the student to build up his stamina in terms of concentration and violin stamina,

- the young musicians learn the situation of a concert at an early stage, particularly in relation to “the performance” and the presentation of three different musical characters in one work,

- a teacher once aptly said: “Sonatas are for experts” – she is right! The sometimes frequent display of technical aspects is probably less “harming” the “solo concert” form than “real” chamber music.

Methodology:

First position:

Concerto 1: first pattern
Concerto 2: first and second pattern, without additional accidentals
Concerto 3: first, second and third pattern (without movement 2), additional accidentals
Concertos 4-6: all patterns, raised first finger (augmented second to the open string), use of all accidentals.

First and third position:
Concertos 7 to 10

Second and fourth position:
Concerto 11

Playing in all positions:
Concerto 12

Seven concertos: Küchler | Rieding | Seitz | Meierott
– from the first lesson to mastery –

(german version)

1) Florian Meierott: Jägerkonzert

2) Florian Meierott: Am Lagerfeuer. Ungarisches Konzert

3) Ferdinand Küchler: Concertino G-Dur, op. 11

4) Oskar Rieding: Concerto h-moll, op. 35

5) Oskar Rieding: Concerto D-Dur, op 36

6) Friedrich Seitz: Schüler-Konzert Nr. 1, G-Dur, op. 13

7) Ferdinand Küchler: Concerto D-Dur im Stile von Antonio Vivaldi, op. 15

Fife concertos: Rieding | Seitz | Meierott | Accolaÿ

– from the first lesson to mastery –

(german version)

8) Florian Meierott: Violinkonzert D-Dur

9) Oskar Rieding: Concertino in ungarischer Weise, a-moll, op. 21

10) Friedrich Seitz: Schüler-Konzert Nr. 3, g-moll, op. 12

11) Florian Meierott: Der Tag. Violinkonzert in g-moll

12) Jean Baptiste Accolaÿ: Konzert Nr. 1 in a-moll