In your opinion, who is the best violinist to have ever lived?
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Da Azian Boi
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My favourite violinist to have lived & still alive is Vannessa Mae.
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The Violinist of Hameln. His magic music is used in two ways playing songs that make the enemy want to repent and be forgiving for their actions or controlling others while boost their natural power during a fight.
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It would obviously have to be Johnny from "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". I mean, come on... he beat the Devil in a fiddle contest.
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If you equate the fiddle and the violin, then I would have to go with Charlie Daniels, but that's just me.
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I don't know his name but he did the soundtrack to Schindler's list and he is a Philadelphia city local. jewish fella. I can't think of it. but he's amazing!!!
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Arguably Niccolò Paganini is the best classical violinist. His techniques were revolutionary and continue to baffle expert musicians to this day.
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There are two kinds of performers: 1 those who USE the music to display their technical prowess, and 2 those who use their technique to display the inner values of music. Too many a violinist or violin fans forget this. Heifetz makes a good example of the first kind, and Grumiaux of the second. Great performers usually specialize in a music period, or composer. That is what happens with great pianists, conductors or great singers. When assessing the caliber of any seasoned or late performer, ask yourself the question> What is the repertoire he/she is best at? That must be clearly answered, often times by the performer him/herself. But if the answer is "he is the best at showpieces or Paganini, well then you are in front of a virtuoso of the first kind, more at ease with the show than with the art of music.
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Thank you happy Haloween')
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Paganini.
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Yehudi Menuhin "Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (April 22, 1916 – March 12, 1999) was a violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985. He is commonly considered one of the twentieth century's greatest violin virtuosos." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehudi_Menuhin Menuhin plays Beethoven Violin Sonata No.1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO5vHbPPrTw
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Paganini ;listen to the Rhapsody on a thyme of Paganini by Rachmaninoff He must have been fantastic. The "thyme" is Paganini's finger exercises!
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