Released at the beginning of 1806, Kreutzer's "40 Studies or Caprices" for violin - today there are 42 - are the result of his long years of activity at the Paris Conservatory, and represent the collection most accomplished study ever out of his pen. Their systematic and complete approach to the decisive techniques of high-level violin play has made it an essential tool for any serious violin student (higher level). In the two centuries since then, numerous reprints have followed the first Parisian edition from different publishers, often in the form of arrangements due to soloists or famous teachers. Only a few years after the first edition, Kreutzer published a complete revision of his standard work, in which he transformed the order of presentation of the studies or made substantial changes to them. It is this second version of the collection that serves as the basis for our urtext edition, while also offering the variants appearing in the very first edition. The violinist Ingolf Turban, virtuoso and sought-after pedagogue, accompanied this edition by bringing him his permanent expertise, and providing it with modern indications, in order to create an optimal basis for
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