Classical Violinists - Jascha Heifetz, Henri Temianka, Carl Stamitz, Koh Gabriel Kameda, Mario Simoes Dias, Shunsuke Sato, Ivan Mane Jarnovi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Jascha Heifetz, Henri Temianka, Carl Stamitz, Koh Gabriel Kameda, Mario Simoes Dias, Shunsuke Sato, Ivan Mane Jarnovi, List of classical violinists, Anahit Tsitsikian, Guillermo Uribe Holguin, Yury Revich, Rachel Vetter Huang, Ignaz Franzl, Percy Hilder Miles, Ferdinand Franzl, Jenny Oaks Baker, Chin Kim, Ani Batikian, Rachel Kolly d'Alba, Rachel Podger, Alberto Lysy, Ruggiero Ricci, Andres Cardenes, Amanda Rontgen-Maier, Pedro Barreto, Jose Julian Jimenez, Leopold Jansa, Aleksey Igudesman, Marta Canales, Cenek J. Vrba, Don Harper, Henri Pensis, Samson Kehimkar, Gavyn Wright. Excerpt: Jascha Heifetz (English pronunciation: , February 2 1901 - December 10, 1987) was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. Jascha Heifetz in 1953 Heifetz was born into a Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. His father, Reuven Heifetz, son of Elie, was a local violin teacher and served as the concertmaster of the Vilnius Theatre Orchestra for one season before the theatre closed down. Jascha took up the violin when he was three years old and his father was his first teacher. At five he started lessons with Ilya D. Malkin, a former pupil of Leopold Auer. He was a child prodigy, making his public debut at seven, in Kovno (now Kaunas, Lithuania) playing the Violin Concerto in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn. In 1910 he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory to study under Leopold Auer himself. He played in Germany and Scandinavia, and met Fritz Kreisler for the first time in a Berlin private house together with other noted violinists in attendance. Kreisler, after accompanying the 12-year-old Heifetz at the piano in a performance of the Mendelssohn concerto, said to all present, "We may as well break our fiddles a...