The Short

582 PORTAMENTO
Ex. 15.28.Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots, no. 10
Ex. 15.29.Wagner, Der fliegende HollÄnder, no. 29
decrescente (Ex. 15.29.) (His use of slurs over notes on different syllables has already been illustrated above.)
Examples cited by Pierre Baillot of passages from his own music and that of Kreutzer and Rode ‘fingered by the
composer’ provide some idea of how early nineteenth-century violinists of the Viotti school might have used
portamento(Ex. 15.30.) Spohr's performing version of Rode's A minor Concerto contains frequent instructions for
portamento in fast movements (see Ex. 12.10) as well as slow ones (Ex. 15.31.) Rode's portamento may also have
influenced Beethoven in the composition of the Violin Sonata op. 96, which he wrote for Rode in 1812. The slurring
as marked at bar 159 of the last movement can only be effectively managed if the violinist takes the c" in sixth position
on the A
Ex. 15.30.Examples in Baillot, L'Art du violon, 149: (a) Kreutzer, Violin Concerto in C; (b) Rode, Sonata no. 1; (c)
Baillot, étude