Étude No. 2 in C major

Programme note

TODO — placeholder recording and placeholder text. Replace the WAV file in public/audio/ with the real recording, then rewrite this note.

Kreutzer’s forty-two studies have been the standard technical diet for violinists for two hundred years, and the second is the one every student meets first: an even run of notes that exists purely so the bow can be practised on it.

It is included here not because it is a performance but because it is honest about what most practice actually is. The same page gets played twenty different ways — different bowings, different rhythms — before any of it turns into music.