1899 — De Bériot Method for the Violin, Part I, edited by George Lehmann

1899 — De Bériot Method for the Violin, Part I, edited by George Lehmann

Year: 1899

Printed instructional music edition for violin, issued as Part I of the De Bériot violin method in an English-language edition prepared by George Lehmann and published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York. The volume is a multi-page pedagogical method book comprising prefatory text, explanatory diagrams, technical exercises, scales, position studies, bowing studies, double-stopping exercises, and melodically titled studies for violin. The title page reads “DE BÉRIOT METHOD FOR THE VIOLIN (Lehmann) PART I” with the imprint “G. SCHIRMER, INC., NEW YORK.” An editor’s note signed “George Lehmann” is dated “New York, July, 1899,” providing the edition date. The prefatory matter also includes an “AUTHOR’S PREFACE” and “GENERAL REMARKS,” presenting Charles-Auguste de Bériot’s pedagogical principles in translation or adaptation for English-speaking students. The opening instructional pages include a “TABLE OF THE SIGNS AND WORDS EMPLOYED IN THIS WORK,” defining bowing and dynamic signs such as down-bow, up-bow, piano, forte, crescendo, diminuendo, pizzicato, trill, da capo, and slur. A labeled diagram identifies the exterior parts of the violin, parts of the bow, and divisions of the bow. Severa