Mozart, Leopold. (1719–1787). [Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule] Leopold Mozarts Hochfürstl. Salzburgisch Vice-Kapellmeisters grünliche Violinschule, mit vier Kupfertaflen und einer Tabelle. Dritte vermehrte auflage.. Augsburg: Lotter. 1787. Third edition. Small quarto, bound in contemporary boards. 17 x 21 cm. 268 pp. Illustrated with all four of the full-page plates, including the often-removed portrait frontispiece. Includes all text engravings and the table of music. Title with bookseller stamps (Chez N.Simrock â Bonn and Chez Adolf Konig A Munster) and a very small hole in the ownership inscription.


This treatise on the fundamental principles of violin playing by the father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart remains an important study on the instrument. "The Violinschule...is of outstanding importance, a didactic work which can stand alongside the corresponding essays by Quantz (on the flute, 1752) and C.P.E. Bach (on the keyboard, 1753)" (New Grove, 12: 677).