about Music for the Young Paganini

Music for aspiring young violinists: A selection of rarely-heard works for violin composed by Edward Mollenhauer, Edward Elgar, Charles Danda, Dmitri Shostakovich, Friedrich Seitz, and Vincent Persichetti, with piano accompaniment performed by John Jensen.

The repertoire was specially selected to encourage children to take up the instrument, and to be playable by young performers who are beginning to develop their technique.

This album was created especially for children, parents and teachers. For children, so that they see the violin is a fun and beautiful instrument to play. For parents who are hoping that their children will pick up violin, to give their children accessible violin music to listen to. For teachers, who are looking for new, contemporary, or non-Suzuki repertoire for their students.

The album includes notes on the composers and works by David Evan Thomas, courtesy of The Schubert Club, St. Paul, Minnesota.


	about Music for the Young Paganini Music for aspiring young violinists: A selection of rarely-heard works for violin composed by Edward Mollenhauer, Edward Elgar, Charles Danda, Dmitri Shostakovich, Friedrich Seitz, and Vincent Persichetti, with piano accompaniment performed by John Jensen. The repertoire was specially selected to encourage children to take up the instrument, and to be playable by young performers who are beginning to develop their technique. This album was created especially for children, parents and teachers. For children, so that they see the violin is a fun and beautiful instrument to play. For parents who are hoping that their children will pick up violin, to give their children accessible violin music to listen to. For teachers, who are looking for new, contemporary, or non-Suzuki repertoire for their students. The album includes notes on the composers and works by David Evan Thomas, courtesy of The Schubert Club, St. Paul, Minnesota.
	Purchase and hear the album at CDBaby.	“It’s refreshing to hear 20th century music performed by young violinists! They seem to relate to new harmony and rhythm without any hesitation!” – A teacher in Minnesota “I have been teaching violin for many years, but I never knew these pieces existed for young violinists!” – A teacher in Pittsburgh “I can’t believe that Elgar's 'Six Very Easy Pieces' are all playable on the first position, because they sound so pretty.” – a 6-year-old student One college student majoring in Music Education picked Persichetti's Masque as part of his Senior recital. The faculty members were pleasantly surprised to hear this rare composition.
	Total running time of the CD is 59 minutes and 57 seconds. Sheet music of the pieces on this album are available from the following publishers: Edward Mollenhauer: The Infant Paganini Fantasia & The Boy Paganini Fantasia Carl Fischer Music Edward Elgar: Six very easy pieces in the first position op. 22 Bosworth & Co. Ltd Charles Dancla: Air Varies Op. 89 G. Schirmer Dmitri Shostakovich: Album Pieces Edition Peters, Leipzig Friedrich Seitz: Pupil's Concerto No. 4, Op 15 in D major G. Schirmer Vincent Persichetti: Masque Elkan-Vogel Company c/o Theodore Presser Co. Return to Index