Egon Sassmannshaus, Kurt Sassmannshaus

Early Start On The Violin 2

This edition consists of the English booklet BA 9677 and a supplementary booklet containing Spanish translations of all text sections.

Please also see the German edition of this booklet: BA 9672.

This second volume, featuring color illustrations and clear fingering diagrams, includes not only well-known children’s and folk songs but also two-part classical pieces designed to help students develop their sight-reading skills. Students learn dotted notes, sixteenth notes, and their first double stops, as well as alternating between high and low finger positions. The book is groundbreaking due to its early introduction to position playing: By combining different finger blocks as the building blocks of any scale technique, major and minor scales can be played in all positions without using open strings—often as early as the first year of instruction! Building on this foundation, children’s songs that have already been learned and practiced can easily be transposed into other keys and higher registers. Together with initial exercises on position changes, this lays the groundwork for an early virtuosic playing technique—a major advantage over many other teaching methods.

Additional material is provided by the two volumes of the "Violin Recital Album," edited by Kurt and Christoph Sassmannshaus and Melissa Lusk (BA 9668, BA 9669), which contain enchanting pieces in first position with piano accompaniment and an alternative second violin part, allowing young students to showcase their progress in student recitals.


The Author
The violin method "Früher Anfang auf der Geige" (Early Start on the Violin)" (The Standard Work for Young String Players), published in 1976 by Egon Saßmannshaus, one of Germany’s most experienced and renowned violin teachers, quickly became the most popular and best-selling violin method for beginners in the German-speaking world.

"The Saßmannshaus" is one of the most thorough and well-conceived violin method books for beginners worldwide.

Other language versions
German: BA 9672
English: BA 9677
French/English: BA 9667


In its original German version, Egon Sassmannshaus’s highly regarded violin method "Früher Anfang auf der Violine," published by Bärenreiter,
has enjoyed great popularity in Spain for several years. The release by our publishing house of an English-language edition in the summer of 2008 led to a further increase in its circulation.

Two supplementary workbooks in Spanish have just been published and are included with volumes one and two of the English-language edition. The translation makes this highly regarded method even more appealing to teachers and students. The supplementary workbooks have not increased the price of the edition.