Paul Rolland

"[Cite] Paul Rolland's early childhood was spent on a farm in Paloc, Hungary where he was fascinated with the free and natural playing of gypsy musicians who travelled through the area.

He did not receive formal violin training until age 11, this instruction being based on the German-Hungarian school of playing founded by Hubay.

Later instruction was in the pedagogically progressive Hungarian school of violin playing that utilized kinesthetics, one of those proponents being Carl Flesch.

From ages 23–27, Rolland studied at the Franz Liszt Academy with Imre Waldbauer whose pedagogy was based on movement led by the larger limbs.

The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign holds the Paul Rolland Papers, which consists of correspondence and publicity, as well as films and audio recordings related to the development of "The Teaching of Action in String Playing."