THE ART OF String Quartet Playing Practice, Technique and Interpretation With 132 Examples in Full Score by M. D, HERTER NORTON With @ Preface by ISAAC STERN wi ‘The Norton Library NEW YORK ‘w+ W+ NORTON & COMPANY + INC *copYRiGHT 1952 © 1962 BY M. D. HERTER NORTON COPYRIGHT 1925 BY CARL FISCHER, INC., NEW YORK Firs published in the Norton Library 1966 by atrangement with Simon and Schuster, Inc. All Rights Reserved Published simultaneously in Canada by George J. McLeod Limited, Toronto W. W.Norton & Company, Inc. is the publisher cf current forthcoming books on music by Geld Abraham, Wiliam Austin, ‘Anthony Baines, Sol Beskowits, Friedrich Blume, Howard Bo ight, Nadia Boulanger, Nathan Broder, Manfred Bukofer, John Castel, Joba Clough, Beds Conrad, Atron Copland, Haas David, Paul Des Maras, Oto Erich Deutch, Federice Dorian, Alfred Einstein, Gabel Fonte, Kart Geiinger, Haro Gletson, Richard Franko Goldman, Peer Gradeawit,, Donald Jay Grow, FL Hartson, A. J.B, Hutchings, Charles Ives, Leo Kafe. Paul Heney Lang, Jers Peter Larsen, Maurie Lieberman, Joseph Mach, W. Marrocy Arthur Mendel, Wiliam J. Mitchell, Dougat Moor, act Parish, John F. Obl, Vincent Pesicheti, Mare Pinchere Walter Piston, Gustave Reese, Curt Sachs, Adolfo Salazar, Arwold Schoenberg, Dens Sevens, Oliver Strunk, Francis Toye, Donald R Wakeling, Bruno Walter, ind JA. West. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1234567890About the Author M. D. Herter Norton, an accomplished violinist and violist, appears t0 have been destined from a very carly age to become an authority on the art and technique of playing string quartets. Her first teacher of violin was Ludwig Marum of the Marum Quartet, At the age of eleven, she spent a year in Frankfurt am Main studying with Fritz Bassermann, vislist of the Herrmann Quartet, the leading German quartet of its day. In New York, at the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School of Music) she studied with Julius Roentgen, second violin of the Kneisel Quartet, and worked in the summertime in a quartet ‘with Louis SveBensk, violist of the same quortet, and with other artists, She also had quartet instruction from Franz Kriesel, leader of the Quartet, and spent many hours attending its rehearsals. For two years Mrs, Norton taught string quartet playing at the Manhatian School of Music. She has always carried on an ac- tive interest in quartets and quartet playing and has published, ‘with Roy Harris, an arrangement of Bach's Art of the Fugue for quartet. More recently she has been serving as violist in the chamber musi classes of the Wilton (Conn.) Music School, which is under the direction of Lieff and Marie Roemaet Rosenoff. Mrs. Norton's home isin Wilton.