Selected Etudes for Viola, Vol. 1

Compiled originally by Constantine Fortunatoff, transcribed and edited by Arkady Heifetz.

Grade Level: 2 - 5.

As one of the leading teachers of the Central Music School for Gifted Children in Moscow, Constantine Fortunatoff created a technical "chef d-oeuvre" that would become a valuable asset to the violin students. This book of etudes merges the best European techniques of Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Spain among others. In Russia, this book became fundamental to the study of violin in schools nationwide. It is essential to introduce this violin method book to the viola literature. These violin exercises provide a technical panacea for viola students.