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Technical Analysis on H. W. Ernst’s Six Etudes for Solo Violin in Multiple Voices

Lin, Shang Jung
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1573812417187084

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2019, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Violin.
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst was a Moravian violinist and composer who lived between 1814-1865. He was a friend of Brahms, collaborator with Mendelssohn, and was admired by Berlioz and Joachim. He was known as a violin virtuoso and composed many virtuosic works including an arrangement of Schubert’s Erlkonig for solo violin. The focus of this document will be on his Six Etudes for Solo Violin in Multiple Voices (also known as the Six Polyphonic Etudes). These pieces were published without opus number around 1862-1864. The etudes combine many different technical challenges with musical sensitivity. They were so difficult that the composer never gave a public performance of them. No. 6 is the most famous of the set, and has been performed by soloists in recent years. Ernst takes the difficulty level to the extreme and combines different layers of techniques within one hand. For example, the second etude has a passage that combines chords and left-hand pizzicato, and the sixth etude has a passage that combines harmonics with double stops. Etudes from other composers might contain these techniques but not simultaneously. The polyphonic nature allows for this layering of difficulties in Ernst’s Six Polyphonic Etudes. There are many more examples like these that can be found in the etudes. The purpose of this document is to help performers master these layers of technical challenges in a systematic way.
Won-Bin Yim, D.M.A. (Committee Chair)
Jonathan Kregor, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Samuel Ng, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
61 p.
Performing Arts
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst; Six Etudes for Solo Violin in Multiple Voices; Six Polyphonic Etudes; technical challenges; virtuosic; polyphonic

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  • Lin, S. J. (2019). Technical Analysis on H. W. Ernst’s Six Etudes for Solo Violin in Multiple Voices [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1573812417187084

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lin, Shang Jung. Technical Analysis on H. W. Ernst’s Six Etudes for Solo Violin in Multiple Voices. 2019. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1573812417187084.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lin, Shang Jung. "Technical Analysis on H. W. Ernst’s Six Etudes for Solo Violin in Multiple Voices." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1573812417187084

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