Arthur Catterall (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arthur Catterall was an English concert violinist, orchestral leader and conductor, one of the best- known English classical violinists of the first half of the twentieth century. Arthur Catterall was an extremely gifted musician in childhood. He first played the violin in public at a concert in Preston when he was 6 years old. He played the Mendelssohn violin concerto in Manchester at the age of 9. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music under Willy Hess in 1894 and under Adolph Brodsky in 1895. In 1902, at the age of 18, he was invited to Bayreuth by Hans Richter and played at all of Cosima Wagner's musical evenings in that season. He appeared at a Halle Orchestra concert in 1903 playing Tchaikovsky's concerto.