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If You Only Knew: The Autobiography

David Garrett

336PP ISBN 9783453218543

Heyne Verlag €22 

Some violinists have fidgety feet, others have fidgety fingers. David Garrett has a ‘phygital’ book, which he defines as a cross between physical and digital. If you scan the QR code at the end of each chapter, you can find videos and photos; but as QR codes are foreign to me, you will forgive me if I stick to the written text.

For me the book starts with Chapter 2. Back in 1985, Henryk Szeryng was playing in Aachen, where David Christian Bongartz was born on 4 September 1980. Father and mother were going and they took David along. Szeryng could hardly fail to notice the little boy imitating him in the fourth row; and before he played an encore, he pointed his bow at David and said: ‘When I was the same age as this little boy… I listened to Fritz Kreisler in concert.’ And he played the encore Kreisler had dedicated to him all those years before, Tempo di Minuetto. Not long Tchaikovsky bio for kids!