The implementation of Louis-Raymond Feuillard's Daily Exercises on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme

With the structural development of the cello instrument, not only its repertoire was expanded but also cellist composers started to write technically much more challenging works. This development, in which the 17th and 18th century composer cellists were the forefront, brought the importance given to the cello training. In this context, the method of cello playing was pushed to produce more advanced method books and to transfuse these techniques into upcoming generations. Louis-Raymond Feuillard, who is devoted his life to the practice of cello wrote the book Daily Exercises; it has become as one of the primarily world-wide used sources in cello training at conservatories. These exercises have been a great foundation, referring to the technical passages in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.33, demonstrating the well-related exercises and prominent difficult works. This thesis demonstrates the importance of exercise books; why they are needed and written considering Feuillard's exercise book. The examples of practicing methods placed in the book has been examined; and finally, applied on Tchaikovsky's great composition. This whole study has been considered to be able to provide an original discovery on technical improvement for performers.