Manuel
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I don't think the skill is declining at all. Globalization also involves instrumentalists schools of technique, so that now many teachers take the best from, let's say, italian, french and russian school of violin (the same with other instruments).
What is absent is the personal touch that the old artists could imprint in their music, to the point that you can inmediately recognize Heifetz, Oistrakh, Horowitz or Richter. However, the appearing in international stage of talents like armenian Sergey Khachatryan confirm there's no lack of talent out there. More names to this list can be: Argerich, Zimerman, Anderszewski, Biondi, Carmignola, Sokolov, Gavrilov...
What is absent is the personal touch that the old artists could imprint in their music, to the point that you can inmediately recognize Heifetz, Oistrakh, Horowitz or Richter. However, the appearing in international stage of talents like armenian Sergey Khachatryan confirm there's no lack of talent out there. More names to this list can be: Argerich, Zimerman, Anderszewski, Biondi, Carmignola, Sokolov, Gavrilov...