‘Young women do not drink or smoke to excess; they therefore tend to be in better physical condition. It is also evident that they are more patient than men.’ So said Otakar Ševík (1852–1934) of his female students, supposedly in an interview for Pall Mall Magazinein 1910, reproduced in The Amadeus Book of the Violin(1998). As one of the most famous violin teachers in Europe at the start of the 20th century, Ševík helped to launch the international careers of female soloists at a time when the violin was gradually becoming a socially acceptable instrument for women to play. Yet these women and their stories have so far received little attention from writers, in comparison with their male contemporaries.
Otakar Ševík was an advocate of female violinists
Henry Roth’s enduring book Master Violinists in Performance(1982) offers a case in point. Following eight individual chapters on famous male violinists like Heifetz and Menuhin, Roth ends the book with a single chapter titled ‘Women and the Violin’, which only briefly covers some of the better-known female violinists, the bulk of the material consisting of photographs rather than biographical detail. ˜e situation is the same with Grove Music Online, which still omits several important women – including two whom we learn more about here.
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