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Eugène Ysaÿe: Essai sur le mécanisme moderne du violon : 13 preludes op. 35

Autograph musical sketchbook in folio, notated in pencil.

Essai contains 13 preludes for violin, exercises, and instructive text in French; inscribe "A la memoire de mes Mâitres Vieuxtemps et Wieniawski ... Première Esquisse Le Zoute Avril 1928"; with extensive alterations and corrections.

Sketchbook contains contains work for violin and piano (10 p.) which comprises no. 24 and 14 from Rodolphe Kreutzer's set of Études ou caprices for violin, with piano part added by Ysaÿ̈e; includes many alterations and corrections, dated 15 Juillet 1928.

Composed in 1928 and published in 1952 by his son Antoine for Schott Brothers, the Préludes remained unfairly in obscurity. Less known than the more famous Six Sonatas op.27, Les Préludes are a compendium of 40 exercises designed to explore once again - after Paganini - the multiple technical possibilities of the violin across the harmonic search. Each prelude is composed on each interval of the musical system, from unison to tenth; a strong parallelism can be found between Ysaÿe's 10 Préludes and Debussy's 12 Piano Studies. The listener will be immersed in the symbolist flows of French music of the late nineteenth century, as well as in the enchanted fluidity of the chromatic passages and impressionist harmonies of French musical and cultural circles. Furthermore, a number of violin effects such as pizzicato, picchetto, fingering thirds, sixths, octaves fingering, harmonics and sometimes as in the prelude Les secondes the Klangfarben (an effect that involves the execution of a passage that is usually played on the same chord, is distributed over several strings), will once again give the idea of ​​the greatness of an extraordinary Ysaÿe who in addition to being a great virtuoso and orchestra conductor also reveals in this work his impressive conception of music.