One of the most important strings progressing and changing immensely from past to present and used in solo and orchestra music nowadays is violin. Many primitive strings thought as the ancestors of violin have risen in different places of the world in ancient times. Some instruments invented especially in Renaissance Period (1450-1600) led to family of violin. Viol which has straight-back, big-stem, different sizes and rose in Italy in 16th century takes the lead of these instruments (Şekerkaran, 1996: 28). There were much more structural developments of violin in this period and many successful luthiers grew up and students grew up. Of these, Kaspar Tieffenbrucker (1514-1570) was the person who finalized violin to several music historians. Other main, famous luthiers and educators of the period: Gasparo da Salo, his student Giovanni Paola (1580-1632) and Andre Amati (1505-1577). Because Renaissance was the period of the transition from viol to violin, there were more viol methods and violin music was mostly transcribed from choir pieces of vocal music. Thanks to technical developments of violin, becoming the lead of players and educators in this field and developments about teaching methods accelerated in the following periods. In Baroque Period (1600-1750), violin took the place of family of viol. So violin became the most important solo instrument in this period by developing with regards to technique and structure. The concept ‘virtuosity’ rose along with increasement of educators following solo pieces and common usage of violin. It occured exactly transition from modal system to tonal system in violin music. It occured forms like sonata, suite in this period and violin music provided so powerful and effective expression thanks to musical density on pieces. Although there were many developments for violin, there were not so many references writen for violin in Baroque Period. These are famous educators and players of this period: Vivaldi (1678-1741), Monteclair (1667-1737); Corette (1707-1795); Geminiani (1687-1762); Leopold Mozart (1719-1787); Tartini (1692-1770); Telemann (1681-1767). The most famous instrument luthiers are; Nicolo Amati (1596-1684), Antonio Stradivarius (1644-1737) ve Andrea Guarneri(1626-1698) In Classical Period (1750-1820), by including chinrest to violin, both the timbre of the violin changed and much more free left-hand technique developed. Repertoires became difficult in terms of technique. According to qualities of rhythm and sound, usage of instruments in orchestras led to increasement of virtuosity. Sonata allegro, sonata, concerto, chamber music, symphony, serenade, divertimento genres came into prominence. Convex violin bow in Classical Period took place of concave bow in Baroque Period and since the change also affected basic bow techniques, it allowed for occurrence of spiccato and soutille techniques besides detache, legato, martele and staccato techniques from Baroque Period. These are famous educators and players of this period: W.A. Mozart (1756-1791); Viotti (1755-1824); Baillot (1771-1842); Rode (1774-1830); Spohr (1784-1859); Kreutzer (1766-1831); Mazas (1782-1849); Fiorillo (1755-1853); even if there were not Beethoven (1770-1827)’s publications for violin just like Mozart, he was the most famous transition composer from Classical Period to Romantic Period. In Romantic Period (1820-1900), violin kept its last physical structure thanks to addition of chinrest and there was not any change. However, it was observed many changes and developments in terms of expression and technique in violin music. In this period, it was achieved much more virtuosity than other periods. It was passed to be intensified expressions thanks to constantly tone changes, rapid changes in dynamics and long-running melodies. There was Paganini’s huge effect on diversification of performance techniques. Within this context, changes of distant position, ricochet, left-hand pizzicato, double fingers trill, artificial and double flajole, passing between dual sounds can be counted as techniques like differential tuning violin. Besides sonata, concerto and chamber music genres, romance genre also became prominent. Apart from these, Sarate, Mendelssohn were the main composers of Romantic Period as well. These are famous educators and players of this period: Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840); Beriot (1802-1870); Ferdinand David (1810 - 1873); Joachim (1831-1907); Dancla (1817-1907); Wieniawski (1835-1880); Auer (1845-1930); Schradieck (1846-1918); Hans Sitt (1850-1922)’dir. Bunların dışında Sarasate (1844-1908), F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), J. Brahms (1833-1897), M. Bruch (1838-1920), P. I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Violin in Contemporary Period: Contemporary/modern Period when jangles were used together in music and atonal music became prominent became the period which resonance was superior to theme in violin pieces and rhythm was the most important element in musical expression. Pieces and etudes written for violin in the period was quite hard and mostly on the level of virtuosity because of used tones, dual sounds and technically difficult passages. Ivan Galamian (1903-1981). Some of his students; Itzhak Perlman, Pincas Zukermann, Chin Kimm’dir (Mumcu, 2004:8). Of Turkish violin virtuosos, Ayla Erduran is also one of Galamian’s students. Flesch (1873-1944); Students he brought up became world-renowned and great violin virtuosos.Some of these students; Ida Haendel, Alma Moodie, Henri Temianka, Ginette Neveu, Roma Totenberg. Carl Flesch’s methods and technique reached to the point which is regarded as scale in violin pedagogy. Main composers in Contemporary Period in violin music; C.Debussy (1862- 1982), L.Janacek (1854-1928), M.Ravel (1875-1928), A.Schönberg (1874-1951), C.Ives (1874-1954), B.Bartok (1881-1945), I.Stravinsky (1882-1971), A.Berg (1885-1935), S.Prokofiev (1891-1953), P. Hindemi